Seascapes Podcast: Lost At Sea Tragedies, Sub

Seascapes Podcast: Lost At Sea Tragedies, Sub–Aqua & Much More

18th March 2016

HE British Ambassador to Ireland Dominick Chilcott (left) and Marcus Connaughton , Presenter/producer of Seascapes. Scroll down for this week's podcast Credit: Paul Sherwood

"Hello and welcome aboard this week’s edition of your maritime programme Seascapes .....this week we hear from Noel McDonagh of Lost At Sea Tragedies – L.A.S.T who we met at the recent Skipper Expo in Galway – we have copies of the History of Irish Water Safety by Tiarnan O Sullivan in our Seascapes competition ....first this week to the Dive Ireland Conference held recently in Athlone on the shores of Lough Ree hosted by Athlone Sub Aqua Club in the Hodson Bay Hotel , we met up with one of the founding fathers of the Irish Underwater Council / Comhairle Fo Thuinn veteran diver and swimmer Mick Moriarty ......

Well from Mick Moriarty to Cormac Nott ; Cian Hynes and this man Liam Sheringham of Athlone Sub Aqua Club Liam is Search And Recovery Officer .....

.............from Liam Sheringhan , Search and Recovery Officer to Dive Show CoOrdinator from Athlone Sub Aqua Club ...Cian Hynes...

next we met Secretary of the Club Cormac Nott....

Our thanks to PRO Pat McManus for all his assistance at The Dive Ireland Conference in Athlone, we’ll have more on Seascapes next week with Richard Thorne on snorkelling and we’ll be talking to Rory Golden of Flagship Scuba ...

So to our competition for copies of the History of Irish Water Safety by Tiarnan O Sullivan, can you tell us where they have their headquarters ..hint.... its the city of the tribes .....Answers on a postcard to Seascapes , RTE Radio 1, Fr Mathew Street, Cork or by email to seascapes@rte .ie ......

Next here on Seascapes to a good friend of the programme whom we met first on the banks of The Suir a decade ago ..he is Noel McDonagh Founder of Lost At Sea Tragedies we met up at the Skipper Expo in Galway ....

Noel McDonagh of Lost At Sea Tragedies , on Monday night in Cobh at The Commodore Hotel the World Ships Society, Cobh Branch are hosting a fund raising evening for the Ballycotton branch of The RNLI Lifeboat service, you can hear about the history of the Ballycotton Station and there’s music from “Molgoggers” ...we’ll be there ..all are welcome and admission is free. The evening commences at 20.00hrs and there are full details on the Seascapes webpage...www.rte.ie/radio1/seascapes

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