A woman with a fishing hook stuck in her leg and reported to be tangled in a mooring was rescued within throwing distance of Bembridge RNLI’s lifeboat station earlier this afternoon (Friday).
The inshore lifeboat ‘Norman Harvey’ was self launched at around 16:00 after a member of the public reported a female swimmer entangled in one of the moorings close to the Offshore Boathouse.
It took almost no time at all for the RNLI volunteers to reach the swimmer, who had in fact got a fishing hook caught in her leg.
Having cut her free, she was taken the short distance back to the Inshore Boathouse where she was given appropriate first aid.
The casualty has since taken herself off to A&E at St Mary’s Hospital.
Note that the AIS diagram below includes yesterday afternoon’s track as I am no longer able to separate multi-shouts over a 24 hour period.
Boo hoo – just a fraction of what millions of fish ( and birds ) suffer every single day
Nice bit of humanity there. Obviously the swimmer deserved it in your book. Why the desire to be heartless?
Thats the biggest thing i ever caught.
don’t tell me it was a karen that thought she had the right to swim where someone was fishing. if so she deserves a fishing hook stuck in her