Welcome to the 2009 Open Sea Programme. The 2009 Calendar is available opposite. More information will be added when available.
Organising Clubs
At the Open Sea committee's Safety meeting in May 2007 the Safety Guidelines were revised and agreed for the 2007 season with the help of the RNLI. [These notes remain here for 2009 pending any changes].
The RNLI guidelines cover planning and running a race, under what circumstances a race should be cancelled and provide sample forms for, Risk Assessment, Rescue, and an Emergency Action Plan.
The Open Sea Committee requires clubs to provide a designated Safety Officer for each race who will liaise with the Open Sea Safety Officer on the day. Clubs must also provide an Equipment Officer to ensure all equipment, - buoys, anchors, weights, radios are used and returned safely and in good order.
Under sixteen swimmers must have a parental consent form signed and present this to the safety officer on race day. Only one form per season is required.
It is also perhaps worth pointing out that whilst the committee and the race organisers take all possible safety measures into consideration, Open Water swimming is an extreme sport and swimmers compete at their own discretion and within the limits of their own ability. Any swimmer who does not like the conditions on any race day should not swim.
Open Sea Safety Guidelines Click here to download/view a copy of the RNLI-approved Open Sea Safety Guidelines.
Safety Management Plan Click here to download/view a sample Event Safety Management Plan.
Sea Swim Race Day Checklist Click here to download/view the Sea Swim Race Day Checklist.
Under 16 Competitor's Parental Consent Form Click here to download/view the Under 16 Competitor's Parental Consent Form.
We wish you all an enjoyable and successful season.
Note:
The complete results for 2008
can still be viewed here as an archive
The complete results for 2007
can still be viewed here as an archive
The complete results for 2006
can still be viewed here as an archive
The complete results for 2005
can still be viewed here as an archive
The complete results for 2004
can still be viewed here as an archive
Guinness SC Swim
The Guinness SC Gibney Cups sea swim originally scheduled for June 7th, has now been refixed for Thursday July 16th at 7.00pm and 7.30pm.
The rescheduled race is being held at Low Rock Portmarnock and NOT in the Malahide Estuary as was previously indicated, and the presentation will be in Gibney's of Malahide afterwards.