Fog horn

biko

Is that a fog horn I hear right now? Intermittent for the last 10-20 minutes or so?

gaeilgegrinds

Indeed it is. Interesting times down here at the docks!

I thought it was my neighbours alarm vibrating. Was banging their ceiling !

Madame Razz

Anybody else aware of a foghorn noise going off in the city for the last half hour or so? I'm in Shantalla and I can hear it. Sounds like a ships horn but I grew up in Foynes and never heard any ship do this for more than a few minutes.

Anybody shed any light?

Madame Razz

Feel free to merge my thread

what's going on?

biffoman

my girlfriend said it was our pipes.i told her it was a fog horn.she called me a randy fecker...i got back into bed,YAHOOOO

gaeilgegrinds

Funny post, made me giggle, thanks, first time in days!

AluraRed

They just mentioned it on GBFM, said it was indeed a foghorn, warning incoming boats to take care.

biffoman

JUST ON A WEE BREAK FROM U NO WHAT..im in rahoon and can hear it clear as fcuk.

biko

Biffoman please mind your txt spk and caps in this forum.

Madame Razz

Noise seems to have stopped now!

vulcan57

its been going off since at least 8 this morning. Haven't heard it before in galway and ive been here a long time. Used to here them regularly in cornwall. Must be bad as i thought they didn't use them any more. Seems to have stopped now as i write this.

lovelyhome

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happyoutish

In my lifetime I have never heard them using the foghorn before.. Its kinda cool in a weird kinda way..

biffoman

your a tad petty .

hoody

That foghorn woke me up! Safe passage to all heading into and out of the docks today.

shaggykev

i could here it out at by glen dara- was walking through the fog this morning to town and it was getting louder and louder

assumed it was coming from the docks but the more it went on for and the fact i couldnt see 3 foot ahead because of the fog, for all i knew it could of been a scene from war of the worlds

a big giant spaceship could of been destroying the city as i was walking straight into it

I was on my guard just in case

NauP

it was loud and clear in Barna

ronnie3585

So that's what that was, b*stard woke me up - ruined my Saturday morning lie-in:mad:

Steyr

It was the Oil Tanker Forth Fisher, they are legally obliged to blow the Fog horn when at anchor in heavy fog as a warning to any other vessel in the area that is not equipped with Radar to avoid a collision.

Pic of her here : http://www.galwayships.com/tankers/Forth%20Fisher%2021-03-04%20No%201.html

Das Kitty

I thought it was my heating making a new and scary sound.

ronnie3585

Steyr wrote: »

It was the Oil Tanker Forth Fisher, they are legally obliged to blow the Fog horn when at anchor in heavy fog as a warning to any other vessel in the area that is not equipped with Radar to avoid a collision.

Pic of her here : http://www.galwayships.com/tankers/Forth%20Fisher%2021-03-04%20No%201.html

Why can't they use Facebook?

quietobserver

sound carries further in fog. thats why it was so clear in so many areas, i remember hearing it in my youth down around the docks and in rossaveal

Storm 10

As a person involved in sailing I can tell you there is no Fog Horn in Galway port, as stated above it was an oil tanker at anchor off Salthill that was blowing its own horn as they must do when at anchor or underway in heavy fog, they do this to alert smaller vessels such as fishing boats etc that may not have radar and it gives the other boats a rough direction of where the ship is so they can avoid it.

The oil tanker docked in Galway this morning around 11 am

Hope this helps

Das Kitty

Speaking of the freezing frogs, did anyone happen to go down by the prom yesterday? Had to get something signed in the Garda station. It was fecking cool, you could only see about 200m out into the bay and the sun was shining through from behind making it glisten and sparkle. One of the most lovely sights I've ever seen, was thinking I should have brought the camera but I doubt it would have picked it up properly.

_Whimsical_

I'm kind of sorry I slept through the auditory excitement now. I hate to miss a first.

biko

I can hear it again today and it made me think of this thread.

Edit:stopped now.

Hyperbullet

I immediately thought of this upon reading the thread title:



Heard it a little while ago too, which is apt due to the dose of fog outside!

civis_liberalis

Hyperbullet wrote: »

I immediately thought of this upon reading the thread title:

I did, I say, I did too.

Storm 10

That fog horn was from the oil tanker "Forth Fisher" that left Galway docks this morning, in thick fog they will sound the horn at regular times so that small trawlers etc that dont have radar are aware of the ships presence.

bobbytables

I remember being woken up by that sound regularly as a kid growing up in Salthill. Except it was often much earlier in the AM. I cursed at it quietly so my parents wouldn't give out.

But Today!, today was different. I said "**** you fog horn, I'm already awake, mya!".

I heard it at the roundabout down by GMIT today. Though it was pretty eerie in the fog.

I could hear it in Parkmore. Thought it might be a foghorn but didn't think the noise would carry that far from the docks, thanks to this thread I know different

DOTHEDOG

well what else did ya all think it was!!!

after all there was heavy fog late last night and this morning :eek:

Edgedinblue

Heard one last week sometime, bohermore area. Sounded like a bomb alert!

westgolf

Some years ago before they got pagers and such like the fire station used to use a kind of wailing siren or air horn to alert on call fire brigade staff. The more noise it made the worse the call

Westgolf

testicle

Storm 10 wrote: »

That fog horn was from the oil tanker "Forth Fisher" that left Galway docks this morning, in thick fog they will sound the horn at regular times so that small trawlers etc that dont have radar are aware of the ships presence.

You may have mentioned that 10 months and 3 days ago. Same ship too...

brianthebard

what the ****ity ****, I heard this before while leaving on merchants road but didn't think it would disturb my sleep in Rahoon, was so ****ing pissed off this morning with it!

apoeiguq3094y

Hyperbullet wrote: »

I immediately thought of this upon reading the thread title:



Heard it a little while ago too, which is apt due to the dose of fog outside!

Cue hour of watching foghorn leghorn clips...

JohnCleary

Storm 10 wrote: »

As a person involved in sailing I can tell you there is no Fog Horn in Galway port, as stated above it was an oil tanker at anchor off Salthill that was blowing its own horn as they must do when at anchor or underway in heavy fog, they do this to alert smaller vessels such as fishing boats etc that may not have radar and it gives the other boats a rough direction of where the ship is so they can avoid it.

The oil tanker docked in Galway this morning around 11 am

Hope this helps

AIS FTW

dafunk

It's a beautiful sad and lowly sound.

Agree with Biko there, his right. Sorry, I mean he's right.