Green Rebel donate €15,000 to help RNLI

A Cork-based offshore survey company has announced that it will give €15,000 for the training of lifeboat volunteers in four counties.

Green Rebel, which is headquartered in Cork city and has a premises in Crosshaven, plans to sponsor a group of RNLI lifeboat stations.

The funds will support the running and maintenance of lifeboat stations in Cork, Dublin, Wicklow, and Galway.

Green Rebel provides an end-to-end set of data services to the offshore wind industry and other sectors.

The company has a fleet of purpose-built vessels, floating LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) buoys, and an in-house team of scientists and industry-based experts in Cork city, Crosshaven and Limerick. Green Rebel’s sponsorship will benefit lifeboat stations in Ballycotton, Crosshaven, Arklow, Dun Laoghaire, Howth and Galway, areas in which the company has been operating in recent years.

Last year, lifeboat crews from the six stations receiving funding from Green Rebel launched their lifeboats 193 times, bringing 262 people to safety.

Kieran Ivers, CEO of Green Rebel, said that working offshore, the company was acutely aware of the need for organisations like the RNLI.

“At Green Rebel, we are committed to maritime safety and regularly conduct training manoeuvres with the RNLI and the Irish Coast Guard,” he said.

“We have several team members who are volunteer crew members with their local RNLI and we are very proud of the commitment they and their fellow volunteers make by responding to emergencies at sea no matter the hour or the weather conditions.

“Supporting the RNLI is a way for us to ‘pay it forward’ and support the coastal communities and areas in which we operate,” Mr Ivers said.

Green Rebel fleet manager Alan Cott said he was a passionate volunteer with Ballycotton RNLI.

“I lost a brother to drowning some years ago while he was out fishing,” he said.

“Being part of the RNLI makes me feel I am giving something back while also hopefully preventing some families from going through what we did.”