Coastguard Rescue Officers from Ventnor and The Needles, Police and volunteers from Yarmouth RNLI battled the elements in a bid to locate a suicidal individual in the South Wight overnight.
At around 23:30 last night (Friday), HM Coastguard were requested to assist Hampshire Constabulary in locating a vulnerable person somewhere along a remote stretch of coast between Chale and Atherfield.
Search teams battled against challenging weather conditions for several hours, but a full cliff top and shoreline search stretching from Blackgang to Brighstone failed to locate any persons.
Yarmouth RNLI assisted by carrying out a search on the water, sweeping up and down the coastline as far south as St Carherine’s Point.
With nothing found, all resources were stood down.
So much time being wasted these past few weeks with false alarms and people going off the rails, we need all the help from our professional services with this virus, they have enough to do without spending hours of hard work looking for people,
I hope the person in question is okay. Tough times for all of us. The vulnerable people need extra care and support.
Hats off to everyone who turned out