110 By the Dart • Dart Lifeboat He was visited in hospital later by Haydn and gave


his permission for the headcam footage taken on the night to be used by the RNLI in any way that would best serve their aim of “Saving Lives at Sea” The Dart station website went down in October


due to a major upgrade by the host organisation and appears to be unrecoverable. Fortunately Jeff Cooper of www.wemakemagazines.co.uk had already been commissioned to create a new web site and it may be visible in its early form on www.dartlifeboat.org. uk by the time this issue of By the Dart is published. The video can be seen on the central RNLI site at www.rnli.org.uk by searching in the News and Media section and choosing Dart as the lifeboat station. As well the rescue described above which has been recognised as “A life saved” the volunteers were called to a man trapped by the tide. The 56 year old had made his way at low tide from Blackpool Sands to Jenny Cole’s Cove to the south. He became trapped and was unable to climb the cliffs. As he was preparing to try and wade back, fully clothed, he was seen by a property owner at Matt’s point who raised the alarm. The Dartmouth Coastguard SAR team and the RNLI


He became


trapped and was unable to climb the cliffs.


he was assessed and given a hot drink and warm dry clothing before being driven home by the Coastguard team. Eleven days later the team were tasked to three adults on a motor boat with engine problems five miles away near the Skerries. There have been frequent requests for help from broken down fishing boats, motor boats and yachts this year, some of which have been so large or so far out to sea that we have had to ask for help from one of the all-weather-lifeboats at Salcombe or Torbay. On this occasion both Dart and the Salcombe lifeboats were called as the light was failing. In the event the boat managed to limp to the mouth of the Dart and was met by the Dart lifeboat which escorted them to a berth at Noss on Dart marina.


The fourth call was initiated by the Police and


concerned a child who had been seen at the water’s edge by the Lower Ferry and was now missing. The area around Bayards Cove and further downstream was carefully searched by the lifeboat crew until the search was called off an hour later by the Police. The latest launch on 3 November to investigate a


Dart inshore lifeboat were tasked to attend. He was res- cued from the beach in the cove by the lifeboat crew and taken to the lifeboat station in Dartmouth where


red flare seen in the Stoke Gabriel area was the 45th of the year. This equals the previous highest number of shouts which was in 2010 – and there are still eight weeks left until the end of the year. www.dartlifeboat.org.uk


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