The Moelfre RNLI lifeboat was launched on Saturday (14 August) to evacuate a sick seaman on board a tanker off Point Lynas, near Amlwch, in a force six northerly wind and rough seas.
The RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew transferred the casualty onto the Moelfre lifeboat where he was medically assessed by the RNLI trained first aiders. Oxygen therapy commenced and he was taken back to the Moelfre RNLI Lifeboat Station, where he was transferred to an awaiting ambulance and transported to hospital.
Earlier in the day, the Moelfre RNLI lifeboat crew were called away from their annual Lifeboat Day display to reports of a 16ft home made boat with six people on board, none wearing lifejackets, in difficulties in the rough sea off Cemas Bay. However, the overcrowded boat managed to get ashore themselves to the awaiting Cemaes Coastguard team before the Moelfre RNLI lifeboat arrived at the scene.
Both the Moelfre RNLI all-weather lifeboat and the Moelfre RNLI inshore lifeboat were called into action on Friday (13 August). The Inshore lifeboat was launched to two windsurfers in difficulties in the strong northerly wind off Red Wharf Bay. They managed to get ashore to the awaiting Moelfre Coastguard team just before the RNLI inshore lifeboat arrived at the scene.
While the RNLI inshore lifeboat was dealing with the windsurfers, the Moelfre all-weather lifeboat was launched to two people thought to be in difficulties in the rough seas on a kayak off Lligwy beach. When the lifeboat arrived, both people, a man and woman, were in an inflatable kayak and neither were wearing buoyancy aids. Their only means of calling for help was from a mobile phone. They were escorted back to the safety of the beach.
