Every Link in the Chain: Inside the Dingle Harbour Rescue
As featured in Vertical Magazine · Fall Mega Issue
EPISODE 263
Dispatch, shore crew, lifeboat and helicopter. Five responders tell Jason Quinn how four rescue teams worked as one to bring all 14 fishermen of the FASTNET home.
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14
fishermen rescued
38 kt
wind across the coast in the hover
51 min
winchman on the deck of the Fastnet
4 teams
dispatch, shore, lifeboat and air, on one emergency
THE STORY
Hear it from the people who were there
Vertical Magazine’s feature tells you what happened. This episode lets you hear it from every position in the response: the voice on the radio at Valentia, the team on the clifftop, the volunteers crossing the bay and the crew in the aircraft.
Each one explains what they saw, what they had to decide with little time and less information, and how trust between organizations that train apart let them work together when it counted.
“The one time I did hold my breath was when jim was left on deck and we waited for him to get off safely ”
-- Carol Leahy, RNLI Volunteer Rescue Boat Crew
Meet the Responders
denis o’leary
Dispatch & SAR Mission Coordinator
Paraic Slattery
Irish Coast Guard Helicopter Crewmen
Carol Leahy
Ground Team
Jim O’Neill
Irish Coast Guard Helicopter Crewmen
Sean curtin
Jason quinn
Host, The Real ResQ Podcast
About The Real ResQ Podcast
The Real ResQ is the podcast for search and rescue stories, told firsthand by everyday heroes working in extraordinary circumstances. Host Jason Quinn puts you inside the aircraft, on the hoist and in the surf, from routine medevacs to complex disaster response: Coast Guard rescue swimmers, helicopter hoist crews, flood and maritime missions, and high-risk night operations. Every episode goes behind the scenes to cover both the wins and the hard realities of the job, and the lessons learned under pressure.
