Emergency rescue teams including Bembridge RNLI Lifeboat and Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team were tasked to assist 2 walkers who were reported to be in difficulty during an attempt to walk to St Helen’s Fort this evening (Monday).
Bembridge RNLI’s Inshore Lifeboat launched at around 19:30 to locate and assist the 2 male adults who had been reported as being in difficulty following their attempt to circumnavigate the fort – an activity which has been discouraged by rescue professionals previously.
Conditions were very benign so it did not take the lifeboat crew long to reach the area, by which time the 2 people had made their way safely ashore and were being ‘escorted’ back to the top of the beach by Coastguard Rescue Officers.
Having checked that there was no one else was on or around the Fort the lifeboat returned to station at Lane End and was recovered by 20:00.
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Should be made to pay for the total stupidity …..
How utterly selfish and who had to give up their time to rescue them ?????
What part of do not walk to the Fort do they not understand……
Massive donation required …..
Cannot believe some people do they think they are clever??????
Lot’s of us don’t …..
at least you are honest about not being clever. It accurately identifies why you think it is ok for people to be prevented from walking across the sand at low tide. Did you not read the article, they were ashore before the boat arrived – in other words, they didn’t need it.
That was only luck !!!!!
They still went out ….. Numptys…..
And when told /asked not to do it …
Why would you???????
Or perhaps you would ******
Lunatics, told not to do this, but they do it anyway.
Surely a fine or some sort of punishment for being an idiot and wasting the coast guards time is in order? Oh yeah, i forgot, the justice system is rubbish! Silly me!
why should they be fined or punished for exercising their human right of freedom of movement and freedom of choice – perhaps we say, that if you decide to step out of your house and trip over, requiring hospital treatment, that you be fined and punished for being an idiot and wasting the hospitals time, because you weren’t looking where you were going.
Totally different scenario .duh ….
You don’t plan to fall over and need hospital treatment .
But you do need to engage your brain re Fort walk ….
Your choice yes,, But don’t endanger other’s .
They may have had a Genuine Emergency , and that could have been tragic …
End of …..
“Isle of Wighter” with a typical single brain-cell attitude., we can visualise the one eye in the centre of the forehead and the webbed fingers already !
It seems there’s more than one person here calling themself that. I wish the site would just say that if a name is being used by one poster then it can’t be used by another, as it is very confusing, You see the same name but it is a different person.
Fools wasting emergency services resources.
1. Fools out at night on an incoming tide, and..
2. Fools embarking out on a boat to check on the no.1 fools, above.
Not sure about this. The two people weren’t in any trouble – the conditions were described as ‘very benign’ – and they didn’t call the Coastguard themselves or ask for any help and made their way back safely. I’m guessing that someone saw the two people doing the walk and decided to call the emergency services. Is that the right thing to do, contact the emergency services when there’s not an emergency? Saying, as one commenter has done, that they ‘may’ have had an emergency whilst walking and it ‘may’ have had tragic consequences could be applied to any circumstances. Surely you only call 999 if there ‘is’ an actual emergency?