Launches
An elderly local man was fishing for mackerel from the old slipway at Beesands when his line became snagged on the rock armour at the water's edge. He slipped as he tried to free it and became wedged between the rocks. He was seen by a passing fishing boat that raised the alarm. The Coastguard centre at Brixham alerted the Kingsbridge Ambulance and the Prawle Point Coastguard team who in turn requested the help of the Dart RNLI inshore lifeboat. The Coastguard team, working up to their waists in water, decided to extricate the casualty themselves as he had been trapped for 45 minutes and the tide was coming in. The inshore lifeboat was stood down when he was safely in the Ambulance. Prawle Point Coastguard team led by Station Officer Steve Wonnacott.
Request Received | 7:06am |
Time to recovery | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.4 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 24 minutes |
Back on Service | 7:40am |
Sea/River State | Calm |
Wind Direction | Northeast |
Wind Strength | 1-4 knots |
Lifeboat crew. Buster Hart, helmsman. Haydn Glanvill, Paramedic crewman and Yorkie Lomas crewman. Launch crew. Mark Conroy, tractor driver. Pete Callis crew.