BIM plans to create sea survival training centre

Bord Iascaigh Mhara is investing €1.5m in a new sea survival training centre at its National Fisheries College in Greencastle, Co Donegal.

To be completed by 2017, the new facility will serve fishermen from Clare, Galway, Sligo, Donegal and the northern counties of the east coast, including Louth and Dublin.

The new centre follows BIM’s recent ‘Live to Tell the Tale’ campaign, which encouraged fishermen to wear a personal flotation device.