Rescue crews look for missing teenagers
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Two RNLI lifeboats, an RAF helicopter and the coastguard spent
an hour searching for two teenagers who disappeared in a rubber
dinghy last night.
The pair had left Dymchurch beach at 7pm without life jackets,
flares or a radio. They were in a three-metre inflatable dinghy
with a two horsepower engine.
When the pair failed to return by 10pm the alarm was raised,
calling out RNLI boats from Dungeness and Littlestone and an RAF
helicopter from Wattisham.
But the would-be rescuers found the teens safe at home at 11pm.
The RNLI gives frequent warnings of the danger of going out to
sea without being prepared.
Stuart Adams, coxswain of the Dungeness lifeboat, said: “All the
rescue services were relieved to hear the two teenagers were not in
any danger and were safe and well.”
Thursday, July 29 2010
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