Madam, - The photograph in page 8 of "Sports Monday" (October 20th) is a difficult and unusual photograph to capture. There are very few photographs of a genuine "man overboard situation" from a vessel in existence. Your photographer, in the right place at the right time, caught the emergency situation very well.
Madam, - The photograph in page 8 of "Sports Monday" (October 20th) is a difficult and unusual photograph to capture. There are very few photographs of a genuine "man overboard situation" from a vessel in existence. Your photographer, in the right place at the right time, caught the emergency situation very well.
It is very difficult to recover a fully clothed person from the water from a yacht that has a relatively high freeboard. Commendation is due to the skipper of the "Joker" for making the successful recovery and to the crewman of "Little Princess" who was wearing a lifejacket.
The photograph should send out a strong message to that small number of uninformed yachtsman and other aquatic activists who still refuse to wear their lifejackets while underway at sea. If the crewman did not have a correctly fitting and operating lifejacket then we may have read about him in your deaths column. - Yours, etc.
Lieut Cdr JOHN LEECH, Chief Executive, Irish Water Safety, The Long Walk, Galway.