Check out http://www.youtube.com/user/GEOCOAST

GEOCOAST aims to broadcast educational videos about Ireland's coastal and marine environments with particular focus on coastal geology and geomorphology. This initiative is currently under development and lead by the University College Cork and supported by the Irish Government funded INFOMAR programme http://www.infomar.ie/. This YouTube channel is accompanied by the online Map Guide at http://www.geocoast.ucc.ie/ allowing you to select videos based on their geographical locations. New videos are constantly added - please subscribe to get informed about new uploads.

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2012 Cork Harbour Open Weekend!!!
 This successful initiative is now in it’s 4th year, and was the outcome of a research project (COREPOINT) led by UCC’s Coastal and Marine Research Centre (http://cmrc.ucc.ie)
 A map of the current activities on the programme can be found here: http://cmrc.ie/news/2012/08/21/cmrc-involved-in-cork-harbour-open-weekend-.html

'No Swim' warning removed from seven Cork beaches

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0824/no-swim-warning-removed-from-seven-cork-beaches.html

E coli detected in water at seven Cork beaches

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0821/swimming-ban-at-co-cork-beaches-to-remain-in-place.html

Cork County Council has said it will be at least two days before it knows whether swimming can resume at seven beaches in the county, including three blue flag beaches.

New photos about the President's visit to Cobh to commemorate the Titanic Tragedy have been uploaded to our facebook page. 

President Michael D. Higgins visits Cobh and the Naval Base to commemorate 100 Years of the Titanic Tragedy (11th April 2012)

President Michael D.Higgins comes to Cobh Wednesday April 11th at 2pm. 

President Michael D.Higgins visits Cobh this Wednesday April 11th to oversee the National Tribute and pay respects to the 123 passengers who left Cobh onboard Titanic 100 years ago. There will be a Naval Fleet review and a Fly Over from the Irish Air Corps. 

Source of information: 
http://www.titanic100.ie

Ocean to City 2012 Maritime Festival

Is taking place in Cork Harbour, Ireland from Saturday 2nd June to Sunday 10th June.

The 2012 festival will start with the Ocean to City boat race 2012 - An Rás Mór on Saturday 2nd June.

For more details see http://www.oceantocity.com/

INFOMAR Programme. Coastal mapping in Ireland -- needs, costs and results
http://youtu.be/N9zlFtinaHw

Cork St. Patrick's Day Parade 2012

Cork was very lucky with the weather for 2012 St. Patrick's Day Parade. The sun was shining all the way through, although, the rain started 30 seconds after parade was finished ;-)! See the video from parade in our video section of this blog or on http://www.youtube.com/user/CostaEire

Check out the newly added "Fishing" tab - providing summary of the main sources of information on all types of fishing in Ireland.

Check updates to the "Weather & Tides" section of this blog. Links to seven day predicted tides have been added for over 100 coastal locations around Ireland.

Check out the newly added "Webcams" section proving links to most operational coastal Webcams providing useful insight into live weather and sea state conditions.

Did you know that INFOMAR data is available for FREE!

http://www.infomar.ie/data/DataAccess.php#INFOMARSurveyData

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East Coast Charts (Dublin Bay, INFOMAR)

INFOMAR has released new charts of the Dublin Bay. http://www.infomar.ie/data/Charts/East_Coast/East_Coast.php

INFOMAR Coverage

You can view or download the free PDF Chart of the INFOMAR bathimetric data collected to date from http://www.infomar.ie/documents/Ireland_Coverage_Chart_21Sep11.pdf