Llandudno volunteer RNLI inshore lifeboat crew saved a mother and her 6 year-old boy this morning (Thursday) after they found themselves marooned on offshore sandbanks by a rapidly flooding tide.
The mother and child, who were visiting Llandudno, had walked out onto the extensive banks off the resort’s west shore across the north deep channel, which was dry at the time. However the incoming tide began to quickly fill the channel, thereby cutting them off from the shore, and putting them in considerable danger.
Numerous concerned members of the public, seeing their plight, made 999 calls to the Coastguard which resulted in the RNLI inshore lifeboat launching at 11.08am.
The RNLI crew quickly plucked the casualties from the small area of dry sand remaining and brought them to safety ashore, complete with the little boy’s bucket and spade, where they were reunited, unharmed, with other members of their family.
