Gorleston lifeboat called after reports of bodies in the water
Saturday, September 8, 2012
12:32 PM
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboat was called out twice overnight, after two separate reports of bodies spotted in the water.
The RNLI inshore lifeboat Sea Horse 4 was called out by Yarmouth Coastguards at 10.25pm on Friday after being informed that there was a body in the sea south of the Wellington Pier.
After a frantic search, which lasted until 12.15am, it was decided that the body was in fact a tidal buoy.
In a separate incident at 6.30am today a woman was reported to have jumped in the river.
The woman then clambered to safety only to report that her daughter had jumped in with her.
A spokesman for the lifeboat service said: “A full scale search was ordered before the woman admitted that the story about her daughter was in fact inaccurate.”
The RNLI Helmsman on both call outs was Rod Wells.
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1 comments
So once again another idiot put the lives of volunteers at risk by jumping in the river, climbing out and then stating her daughter had jumped in only to say that it was not true. This person should be made to pay for wasting time of a very important service for the genuine cases.
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loco
Saturday, September 8, 2012