Launches
Fishing vessel reported a Suzuki dinghy with a 4hp outboard with no occupants adrift mid river near Kingswear.The fishing vessel towed the dinghy to the commercial pontoon and tied up. Falmouth Coastguard tasked Dart RNLI to search the river for possible missing persons at 05:45. Dartmouth Coastguard Search and Rescue Team carried out a shorline search. Dartmouth Harbour Authority were also searching the river. Berry Head and Torbay Coastguard Search and Rescue Teams carried out a shoreline search on Kingswear side of the river. The Coastguard helicopter also assisted. Operations were stood down at 11:30 after more than five and a half hours of searching. Search area covered Anchor Stone to Combe point First Lifeboat Crew :- Buster Hart, helmsman, Haydn Glanvill and Dean Nettleton crew. Shore Crew :- Mark Strudwick Second Lifeboat Crew:- Andy Pomeroy, helmsman. Mark Conroy and Richard Eggleton crew. Shore Crew. Paul Manley
Request Received | 5:48am |
Time at incident | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 5.466666666666667 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 5 hour, 28 minutes |
Time to recovery | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 6.2 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 6 hour, 12 minutes |
Back on Service | 12:15pm |
Sea/River State | Smooth |
Wind Direction | Southwest |
Wind Strength | 3 knots |