Learn lifesaving skills at BIM and RNLI’s Man Overboard Challenge. BIM and the RNLI have joined forces again this year to offer two Man Overboard sessions to teach essential lifesaving […]
RNLI celebrates 200 years and over 146,000 lives saved. Today 4 March 2024, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) celebrates 200 years of saving lives at sea – thanks to volunteers […]
RNLI Lifesaver Podcasts Returns – While 2020 has been so uncertain, there’s still one thing that we’ve all been able to depend on in one form or another: family. And […]
New RNLI lifeboat for Eyemouth. Eyemouth in Berwickshire has taken delivery of a new RNLI Shannon class lifeboat. Called Helen Hastings, the boat was built at the RNLI’s all-weather lifeboat […]
Animation helps spread the message that ‘safety is better shared’. Two well-known UK fishermen have lent their support to the new Home & Dry fishing safety campaign, which aims to […]
Man Overboard Challenge taken up by 39 participants from the Seafood Industry Thirty-nine participants from the seafood sector undertook the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM)/ RNLI Man Overboard challenge at the […]
I SAVED A DOG’S LIFE BY GIVING IT CPR When Wells lifeboat crew launched to a family cut off by the tide, they found a dog in desperate need of […]
Fishers gain first-hand experience of importance of lifejackets No one wants to experience a man overboard (MOB) incident while at sea but being prepared for the worst can make all […]
A new study has used lifeguard records of beach users and weever fish stings to learn more about populations of weever fish. Weever fish are perhaps most commonly known for […]
Bakkafrost helps celebrate four decades of the Skye Half Marathon. Bakkafrost Scotland will once again, for the sixth year running, support as headline sponsor, the Isle of Skye Half Marathon 2024 on […]
Star Refrigeration founder Dr Forbes Pearson dies peacefully at 92. Stephen Forbes Pearson was the first child of Stephen H Pearson, an engineer from Northumberland, and Gladys Stewart, from Glasgow. […]
Fish farm barge fire quickly brought under control. A fire broke out on Monday morning, 8th of January, on a feed barge that serves Cooke Aquaculture Scotland’s West Fara salmon farm, […]
Do YOU have the courage to learn what it takes to survive? – 2024 Man Overboard Challenge from BIM & RNLI. Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), Irelands Seafood Development Agency has […]
SeaFest Peterhead hailed roaring success as thousands descend upon the Blue Toon and organisers reveal event’s return Thousands of people came out in force to support Peterhead’s latest seafood festival […]
SeaFest Peterhead to welcome five top north-east chefs to first seafood stage A quintet of leading chefs from across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire will showcase the finest seafood dishes on stage […]
Trawlermen wanted for north-east’s first Prawn Tailing World Championship at SeaFest Peterhead. Local trawlerman are being encouraged to enter a new competition that will see one individual be crowned the […]
Planning and preparation vital to reduce man overboard fatalities. Race against time as crews have 11 minutes to recover victim 40% of all man overboard incidents end in tragedy Analysis […]
Mowi’s Salmon Wagon set for second summer tour of Scotland to raise vital funds for communities. After the success of 2022 – when Mowi’s fundraising ‘Salmon Wagon’ raised thousands of […]