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Anywhere online to see what lighthouses are "active" at any one time?

  • 01-11-2015 10:03AM
    #1
    vicwatson
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    I mean active as in using foghorn one long blast two short blasts every maybe two minutes?

    Can I see these lighthouses live online anywhere? Irish lighthouses now.


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  • #2
    LiamoSail
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,294 ✭✭✭LiamoSail


    vicwatson wrote: »
    I mean active as in using foghorn one long blast two short blasts every maybe two minutes?

    Can I see these lighthouses live online anywhere? Irish lighthouses now.

    The Irish Lights website perhaps?

    Certainly they'd be in the Admiralty List of Lights, though not sure if you could access that for free

    Most will only sound in Fog anyway


  • #3
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Had a look there but it shows a map where lighthouses, buoys etc are around the coastline but don't see that it shows which ones that are currently active


  • #4
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,407 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    If it's specifically foghorns you're after, you're a few years too late I'm afraid.

    I'm fairly sure all foghorms were decommissioned recently, there was a bit of a stink about it at the time but the argument was that shipping is reliant on gps/sat navigation now and foghorns were no longer necessary.

    Sad day imo.


  • #5
    tricky D
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    There's one singing away as I type, probably the Kish or Baily.


  • #6
    HeidiHeidi
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    http://irishlighthouses.blogspot.ie/2011/01/foghorns-fall-silent.html

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/last-post-sounds-for-countrys-coastal-fog-horns-26690857.html

    Not sure what you're hearing, but these articles refer to what I remember.

    Maybe they changed their minds since?


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  • #7
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,698 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Yep, there was a flurry of articles at that time, but despite those I have heard at least two still working away in more recent years. I'll ask some one who works in the Baily.


  • #8
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,698 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Well, he says it's not the Baily. I would head up to the Summit to check but it seems to have stopped now (and I'm having a don't want to leave the house day).


  • #9
    HeidiHeidi
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    The only one I know for sure about is the East Pier on DL, which was definitely stopped at the time.

    Maybe there's other places that blow horns? It'd seem strange for CIL to put everyone's back up by making an announcement like that, and then not actually doing it!


  • #10
    vicwatson
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    This was in Wexford this morning, not near the sea but was every two minutes. It was definitely a fog horn so they haven't been decommissioned.


  • #11
    tricky D
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    It's ships' foghorns. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057254807 post#10


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  • #12
    HeidiHeidi
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    vicwatson wrote: »
    This was in Wexford this morning, not near the sea but was every two minutes. It was definitely a fog horn so they haven't been decommissioned.
    This is the bit that's puzzling me.

    How far from the sea?


  • #13
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    tricky D wrote: »
    It's ships' foghorns. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057254807 post#10

    That went exactly every two minutes for about an hour?
    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    This is the bit that's puzzling me.

    How far from the sea?

    I was about 10km but as we know it was VERY still this morning


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