By Dan Walsh
Courtown RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crew were called out on Thursday by the Irish Coast Guard at 7.44pm following a sighting of a small craft adrift south of Ardamine, near Rooney Rock.
They arrived on scene approximately one kilometre north of Rooney Rock at close to 8pm and observed that the small dinghy was capsized and unmanned.
The conditions were favourable at the time with partial cloud and a slight wind. With assistance from radio contact with shore crew, the crew established the boat had inadvertently drifted out to sea with no one onboard. A decision was made to tow the vessel to the nearest safe port at Courtown.
Speaking following the call out, Mark Chambers, Courtown RNLI Lifeboat Operations Manager said: ‘Thankfully no one was in danger in this instance, but we would always much rather launch and find that all is ok than not launch at all. We would like to thank the member of the public who raised the alarm when they thought someone was in difficulty, that is always the right thing to do.”
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