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SEASCAPES: Radio 1's weekly maritime programme, providing comprehensive coverage of the marine sector, is presented by Marcus Connaughton.

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You can hear Seascapes each Friday night at 10.30 p.m. on RTÉ Radio 1 FM, Sky Digital 0160, NTL Channel 901 and in Northern Ireland on Virgin Media 917. There is also a Seascapes teletext service on Aertel, RTÉ 1 at page 190.

The programme is repeated at these times:
RTÉ Radio 1 FM - Monday morning at 5.02 a.m.
RTÉ Choice - Saturday lunchtime at 12.30 p.m. and again on Wednesday morning at 7.30 a.m.
On RTÉ.ie - Anytime

The SEASCAPES book has been published by Mercier Press to mark 1,000 editions of the programme.

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Phone: 021 4805876
Fax: 021 4805835
Email: seascapes@rte.ie
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Seascapes Friday 29th January 2010

On this edition of Seascapes we visit the Titanic – Artefacts Exhibition at the City West Event Centre in Saggart in Co Dublin which runs there until June , now that Eel fishing is banned scientists are to track them by satellite – first to The RNLI and their headquarters in Swords in county Dublin and Anna Classon has the latest figures on lifeboat launches in the past year….

More than 1,000 people brought to safety by lifeboat crews last year

Figures released last week by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) show an increase of 13 percent in the number of launches carried out by Irish lifeboats last year compared to 2008. The statistics released by the charity show that lifeboats based at the 43 lifeboat stations in Ireland launched 976 times and rescued 1,008 people.

The busiest lifeboat station last year was Dun Laoghaire in Dublin, where the crew launched 68 times and rescued 92 people last year. The next busiest station was in Northern Ireland where the Bangor lifeboat volunteers launched 55 times, rescuing 69 people. The Aran Islands’ lifeboat in Galway and the Enniskillen stations on Lough Erne were also in demand with 51 callouts each and over 100 people rescued between them. Other lifeboat crews who had high levels of callouts included Crosshaven in Cork with 45 launches and 45 people rescued, and Arranmore in County Donegal with 44 callouts and 32 people rescued. Howth lifeboat crew members in Dublin launched 43 times and brought 70 people to safety.

The RNLI has also outlined the top five reasons for lifeboat launch requests last year. The most common was for machinery failure with 194 of the callouts dealing with this type of incident. A vessel becoming stranded or grounded was the reason for 104 of the lifeboat calls. The third most common was for vessels believed to be in danger or trouble (88 launches), the fourth was to medical emergencies (54 launches) and the fifth was to search for missing people (52 launches). Other launches included 12 to animals in trouble.

For information on RNLI SOS Day log on to rnli.ie/sos or call 1800 789 589 email lifeboatireland@rnli.org.uk

TITANIC - the Artefacts Exhibition

The worlds most famous ocean going liner – designed and built in Belfast at the beginning of the last century – is the focus of an exhibition running until June of this year at the City West Event Centre in Saggart in county Dublin – Seascapes was there last weekend as the three Titanic societies on this island gathered for the first time together to see - Titanic – The Aretefacts Exhibition , Dr Paul Nolan of the Addergoole Titanic Society in county Mayo told us about the western connections……

You can find out more about the Addergoole Titanic Society on www.mayo-titanic.com also there were Chantal Murray secretary of The Irish Titanic Historical Society based in Dublin and the treasurer of the Belfast Titanic society Una Reilly with members drawn from both societies .You can discover more about the Belfast Titanic Society on www.belfast-titanic.com and the ITHS or Irish Titanic Historical Society on www.iths.ie .

Rory Golden of Flag Ship Scuba Diving is one of the leading diving experts in these islands and has the distinction of diving on the Titanic we talked about his involvement with the vessel. Michael Martin is the author of Spike Island – Saints ,Felons and Famine and runs the Titanic Trail –a walking tour of the vessels historic last port of call to Cobh ........Michael and I strolled through

this haunting display of artefacts .Pictured L to R Michael Martin, Titanic Trail ,Cobh & Rory Golden , Flag Ship Scuba with the Titanic at the Titanic-the artefacts exhibition www.titanicdublin.com

HUMP BACK WHALE

The maritime image of this past week were those remarkable photographs of a Hump Back Whale breaching off Hook Head taken by Padraig Whooley of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group…….

The Maritime Institute of Ireland have a series of Spring lectures On Thursday 18^th February you can hear from Erica Devine MA on The “Conservation of Maritime Artefacts” , the March lecture will be given by Rory McKenna on the topic of “The North Dublin Coastguard” and in April “The Story of Lambay Island” by Dr Eithne O’ Connell, all these lectures take place at 8 pm in the Stella Maris Seafarers Club, Beresford Place , Dublin,1 which is beside Bus Aras.

Friday 5th February 2010

Next Friday on Seascapes we remember the Rod Wars with David Dinsmore , Editor of Irish Angler and we’ll hear from boating enthusiast , farmer and author of “In the Wake of Giants” journeys on the Barrow and Grand Canal - Gerald Potterton.

Farmer, boating enthusiast Gerald Potterton , author of "In the Wake of Giants - Journeys on the Barrow and Grand Canal" published by Ballyhay Books.

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