The volunteers at the RNLI’s station at Burry Port launched on Sunday 22 August 2010 at 4:50 pm to assist two adults and four children cut off on the sandbank behind the Shoreline Caravan Park Burry Port. They had been caught out by the speed at which the tide came in.
The family, on holiday from Leicester, was seen by a person on the shore who informed Swansea Coastguards to alert them of the danger that the six were in. They were cut off from the shore by the incoming tide which was following the course of the river that flows behind the Shoreline Caravan Park from the Burry Estuary. The lifeboat took them aboard and they were taken to the beach behind Burry Port yacht club. The six then visited the station to express their gratitude for the assistance given by the lifeboat crew.
This call once again highlights the importance of knowing the tide times and to appreciate the rapidity at which the tide comes in and the extra dangers of going on to sandbanks in an estuary with so many rivers.
The lifeboat was crewed by: – Owain Davies, Lee Howells and Hefin Williams.
