Tom MacSweeney's Seascapes

Tom MacSweeney's Seascapes

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Tom MacSweeney's Seascapes episodes

  • Once Navy – Always Navy

    Remembering a submarine explosion 105 years ago.


    Also on this edition – Fish Farming will be a vital supplier of food to future generations … Are whales changing which parts of Ireland they visit

    and the Waterford Estuary harbour which has changed, but not for the better…..

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    21 min
  • The “insane” treatment of Ireland’s fishermen

    The “insane” treatment of Ireland’s fishermen.”


     “The way the Irish fishing industry is treated about Bluefin Tuna is insane,” says John Shine, a leading figure for 20 years in the marketing and selling of Irish fish, highlighting that Irish fishermen are prevented from catching Bluefin Tuna in Irish waters, while other nations are allowed to do so.

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    17 min
  • Alone around the World
    On this edition of the maritime programme, SEASCAPES, presented by Tom MacSweeney,the Polish solo sailor who is Ireland’s only representative in what is being described as “a world first event, never attempted before …” explains why he intends to spend over a year sailing 26,000 miles alone around the world on a 19-foot plywood boat which he has built himself….. The Managing Director of a Valentia Island boatyard discusses how it has built the first Naval vessel in Ireland for forty years…. and a sailmaker explains why he built a maritime cannon ….

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    14 min

About Tom MacSweeney's Seascapes

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The SEASCAPES Podcast reports on Ireland’s maritime development, tradition, history and culture, through the voices of the people of an island nation.

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