Launches
The 7m fishing boat Kopella, with 2 adults on board, broke down with gearbox failure 100 metres North of the Eastern Blackstone in an ebbing tide. The Coastguard requested the Dart inshore lifeboat to launch and the lifeboat towed the vessel back to her mooring on the Kingswear side of the river.
Request Received | 11:22am |
Time at incident | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.08333333333333333 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 5 minutes |
Time to recovery | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.6333333333333333 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 38 minutes |
Back on Service | 1:15pm |
Sea/River State | Choppy |
Wind Direction | South-Southeast |
Wind Strength | 14 knots |