Town Hall Theatre Friary Street Dungarvan
Wednesday 16th October 8PM
Refreshments will be served
€5 Entry all are welcome
Dungarvan diver Eoin McGarry, is now
recognised as one of the best technical salvage divers in the world.
He has spear-headed entire operations. Experts in the field who have
worked with him in the deep will attest that his engineering skills
when working at tremendous depths must be seen to be believed, he is
also the diver who made headlines several years ago by bringing back
the "smoking gun" evidence from the wreck of the liner RMS Lusitania which lies in almost 300 feet of water, a technical diving
operation which has been compared to the arduousness of working in
outer space. Eoin is a highly qualified and respected diver in both
the National and International diving scene. He has been diving for
up on 25 years and is passionate about wreck diving in particular.
Eoin McGarry has led many dive
expeditions and recovery operations, some of those have included a
documentary with National Geographic on Lusitania, ammunition and
artefact recovery from Lusitania, recovery of anchors from Roger
Casement's gunrunning ship the Aud, recovery of the bell, wheel and
compass from the lost sail training vessel the Asgard II sunk in the
Bay of Biscay and is currently involved in documentary being made for
TG4 based on the Lusitania and has also just completed a radio
documentary for RTE Radio 1 on sunken treasures off the Irish Coast.
Eoin is also specialized in the use of Side Scan Sonar for the
detection of lost objects, sadly human remains being the primary
target of interest and has assisted and worked with the Naval Service
Divers in the use of this type of sonar equipment.
Eoin's qualifications also include;
Open and Closed Circuit Mixed Gas Technical Rebreather Diver,
Commercial Diver, Search and Recovery Diver and Cave Diver. This then
is most certainly not an opportunity to be missed; Eoin will also
have a number of artefacts from his dives on display on the night,
refreshments will be served and Eoin will be available to chat. This
illustrated talk takes place at the Town Hall Theatre on Friary
Street on Wednesday 16th October at 8.PM. And as always, all are
welcome.
Lusitania Image Courtesy: German Federal Archives