Scout Motto The Scout motto is “Be Prepared” or “Bí Ullamh”, if you go through Scouting and follow these two simple words you will survive all that is thrown at you. For example:- If you go on a hike and it starts raining but you have rain gear then you are prepared and won’t get wet! If you are in a powerboat and your propeller fouls, but you have a set of oars then you are prepared and you can row home! These examples all seem so easy and common-sense to overcome but if you had not come prepared to overcome them, then how difficult could each situation have become: - hypothermia, collision or drowning?
Irish Marine Emergency Service (IMES)
There are fifty Coast Guard Units around the coast with about 600 volunteers and 65 full time staff. The men and women of the Coast Guard are responsible for Marine Emergency management including Search and Rescue, Cliff Rescue, Pollution Control, Salvage and Wreck, Safety Awareness and the provision of a Commercial Radio Communications Service. As well as Rescue vehicles and support boats the Coast Guard operates two Sikorsky S61N SAR helicopters, one each from Shannon and Dublin. It also co-ordinates the activities of the RNLI, the Community Inshore Rescue Services and the two Air Corps SAR helicopters based in Waterford and Finner in Donegal. All of these activities are coordinated form MRCC (Maritime Rescue Co- ordination Centre) in Dublin. If you see someone in difficulty at sea you should contact the Coast Guard by dialing 999, or 112 from your mobile phone. 13
