Naive naive naive. People all over Ireland have dangerous jobs. Truck drivers sail to Europe in weather like this. Farmers work in bad weather & the bravest of them all these lads. I know fisher that have been out in 60/70 foot waves its what they do. And the safety police sit at home eating prawns & telling us whats dangerous & what not. The safety you preach is a product. It makes people money. If these lads stay at home they dont get paid. So you say its no dangerous. So what so is crossing the road. So tuck in to your prawns & preach safety & let these real men do their job.

This just a Normal day at work, if you owed a boat you would know the pressure skipper/owners are under to make a living and this sometimes leads to guys pushing the weather limits a little.

Risk has to be calculated. What does this man know that every other fisherman on the east coast doesn’t. I’m in skerries looking at 4 sailboats on the rocks and the fishing boats safe on the harbour wall. Fishing is dependent on the weather so when it extreme stay home.

Have to agree with Michael on that one Barry, It actually looks worse than it really is! If you want to see more drama at sea watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrKQgJykdO4

Everything will be fine unless something goes wrong, then in these conditions a small problem quickly multiplies. All the arguments to go out seem to be economic, a storm like this is not that common on the east coast so I think he should stayed in.

Well maybe safety is important.If so tell these lads to stay at home in bad weather because its safer & let the government & HSA pick up the bill & the same for farmers & the hauliers.Oh wait where are the safety police now & government.Oh I forgot if it cost them money they will be running for cover.When safety is not being charged for I will take the safety police serious.until then its just another tax.Let these lads do their job.Some will die some wont they accept that risk its about time the public did so too.You want to make their job safer stop driving up their costs with bullsh#t legislation & pay them more & they will need to take less risks as will farmers & truck drivers.Oh dear all the safety police are running for cover again money has been mentioned.

Barry, while storms like this are not common on the East Coast along much of the South and all of the West coast around to Malin Head seas like this are common and fishermen work them everyday! However the boats are appropriate to the conditions that are expected. Those that go to sea are not fools and they do know the limits of their boats, money pressures or not. That is why the smaller boats in Skerries are tied up and this much larger boat is at sea. also I would venture that the conditions between Ireland Eye and Howth where this clip was taken can sometimes appear worse than they really are because there is a strong tidal effect in that channel.

Comfortable position of sanctimonious judgement. Some must take risks.

Greedy trawler owners putting their own crews and R.N.L.I crews lives at risk, 1 life lost is 1 too many