Coastguard Rescues Climber Who Got Stuck During a Force 9 Gale
Two coastguard teams rescued a climber in Northern Ireland on September 27, after the climber became stuck while scaling a cliff during a force 9 gale.
Two climbers started climbing the cliff, but only one managed to get the top after the winds switched the positioning of their ropes. The alarm was raised at a local farmhouse, and the occupants of the farm quickly alerted one of the local Coastguard team members, who called the Belfast coastguard operations centre.
A statement from the coastguard said: “Ballycastle and Coleraine coastguard rescue teams and Redbay RNLI All Weather Lifeboat were sent to the scene, along with the UK Coastguard search-and-rescue helicopter based at Prestwick. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service was also informed of the incident.”
In the same statement, station officer for Ballycastle coastguard rescue team Daniel McAuley said that “a combination of working in darkness, the instability of the cliff edge and the 44 knot winds meant that we had to set up thirty metres away from the edge of the cliff to make sure the equipment was secure.” Credit: YouTube/Maritime and Coastguard Agency
