Abersoch RNLI volunteer crew has launched the inshore lifeboat five times in six days to help save lives at sea.
On Monday, August 9, the Abersoch RNLI inshore lifeboat (ILB) was attending the Annual Raft Race, a fundraising event in aid of the RNLI. As they were returning to station at about 7.30pm, volunteer crew members noticed four teenagers in potential danger on the rocks, with an in-coming tide, between the Harbour and Warren Beaches. Two of the group had to be helped by the lifeboat whilst the other two made their own way to safety.
The inshore lifeboat was launched on Tuesday, August 10, after reports of a jet-ski drifting in Abersoch Bay. After conducting a thorough search of the area and nothing to report, the RNLI volunteers returned to station.
On Saturday afternoon, August 14, whilst attending the Annual Abersoch Regatta, the RNLI’s lifeboat service was required on two separate occasions. The first was at approximately 12.30pm when the Abersoch RNLI volunteers were called to investigate a dinghy, reported by members of the public to be in trouble off the Old Lifeboat Station. The inshore lifeboat was quickly on scene and found the craft and its occupant safe and well.
Two hours later the Abersoch RNLI’s lifeboat was in action once more when it was tasked to search for a suspected missing person in the Porth Ceiriad – Porth Neigwl area because a car had been found on Cilan Head with a dog inside, believed to be abandoned. After a thorough coastline search, the occupant of the car and a friend were found safe and well fishing off the rocks at Trwyn y Ffosle at the south eastern end of Porth Neigwl.
The volunteer lifeboat crew were called on service again at 5pm on Sunday (August 15) to help a broken down powerboat off St Tudwal West. It had four adults, two children and a dog on board. The 17 foot vessel was carefully towed back to Borth Fawr (Abersoch main beach).
