Growing Our Reserves

Adrian Walker

Dramatic Rescue at Sandside, Sunday 16th June, 2013

These pictures of a dramatic rescue in 2013 of a couple and their dog in difficulties in the quicksands just a few yards off-shore at Sandside and facing a rising tide have been sent to us by Landscape Trust member, June Harrison. Adrian Walker explains the stages involved in the rescue:

3.30 pm — a couple in difficulty with their dog, a few metres from the shore in front of the Ship Inn and with a rising tide. A local person has thrown a lifeline and is holding onto the rope.

Rapid arrival of emergency vehicles — three fire appliances, an ambulance, a doctor’s car, police vehicles and more.

To distribute their weight on the sand and mud, rescuers walk on planks and wear wide soled boots.
The local person on the right continues holding the lifeline.

Lifting the gentleman from the mud onto an orange coracle-like flat bottomed rescue craft.
The lady on the left (now wearing a blue helmet) holds a lance-like water jet, which helps release pressure around victims.
The jet is fed by the hose seen snaking across the picture.

Were you wondering about the dog?
In fact it was quite quickly called away safely to the bank

First person hauled up the beach and led to safety.

Now the turn of the second person to be rescued and returned to dry land.

4.45 pm – Time to tidy up and hose down the mud-covered rescuers

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