Two men were rescued by Llandudno’s volunteer RNLI lifeboat crew on Saturday (30 July) after becoming trapped on offshore sandbanks by the rising tide.
The two middle-aged men, understood to be visitors to the resort, had walked out across the extensive dried-out sands at low water to do some fishing. They were unaware the tide had turned and was rapidly flooding the North Deep channel behind them, thereby cutting them off from the shore. Fortunately, members of the public ashore saw the danger they were in and made 999 calls to Holyhead Coastguard, who in turn called out Llandudno’s RNLI inshore lifeboat.
Launching at 7.45pm, the lifeboat crew quickly took the pair on board and ferried them to safety ashore where they were met by Llandudno coastguards.
The incident was almost a repeat of the rescue carried out by the same lifeboat at the same location a few days previously; on that occasion, two adults and a teenager were plucked from the rapidly-flooding banks and brought to safety across the channel.
