Spanish holidaymakers rescued by coastguards after getting caught on mud flats

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Spanish holidaymakers rescued by coastguards after getting caught on mud flats

July 24th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The tourists were spotted wading waist-deep through mud
Had they not been rescued they could have easily have drowned

By
Emily Allen

PUBLISHED:

10:48 EST, 23 July 2012

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UPDATED:

10:48 EST, 23 July 2012

A group of Spanish holidaymakers had to be rescued after getting caught waist deep on notorious mud flats at a British resort.

The five mud-covered visitors had to be rescued by coastguards at Brean, Somerset, yesterday after sparking a safety scare on the mudflats at low tide.

They were seen wading through waist-deep mud over a mile from the shore.

This is the moment five mud-covered Spanish holidaymakers were walked to safety by coastguards at Brean in Somerset after sparking a safety scare on the mudflats at low tide

Rescued: This is the moment five mud-covered Spanish holidaymakers were walked to safety by coastguards at Brean in Somerset after sparking a safety scare on the mudflats at low tide more than a mile from the shore

A team of Burnham coastguards and two rescue hovercrafts from the Burnham Area Rescue Boat were called to the beach at 3.25pm after a beach warden raised the alarm.

Brean beachwarden Dave Furber said: ‘The five young holidaymakers were so far out on the mudflats – well over a mile – that all I could see were tiny dots on the horizon next to the tideline.

‘They were in an area of deep mud so there was concern they would get stuck, which is why we alerted the coastguard, who were quickly on the scene with BARB. Fortunately, they managed to get back to the shore safely.’

The rescue has prompted warnings about the dangers of
wading out into ‘treacherous’ quicksands.

Had
these tourists not been spotted and saved, they could easily have been overcome
and drowned by the advancing tide, unable to struggle from the mudflats
in time.

They were met by coastguards, who gave them safety advice about the danger of walking on the mudflats at low tide.

Burnham Coastguard Ian Jefferies told Burnham-On-Sea.com: ‘The incident serves as a fresh warning about walking in the mud.

‘Chasing the tide on a falling tide is potentially a very dangerous thing to do.’

A coastguard
spokesman added: ‘People should be sensible and not venture far out on the
mudflats. The tide may have receded a long way out but it turns and
quickly comes back in again, and you can rapidly get exhausted if you
get bogged down in the mud.’

Meanwhile, a woman had to be rescued in Portsmouth, Hampshire, by a lifeboat when she got into trouble swimming 600 feet to a buoy during an alcohol-fuelled dare.

Onlookers dragged the unnamed swimmer back to the shore after she swallowed too much seawater and passed out.

An RNLI lifeboat abandoned a nearby first aid refresher course to deal with the incident on Hayling Island.

She was drifting in and out of consciousness and struggling to breathe, when crews arrived shortly after 3pm on Sunday.

Aaron Gent, from the RNLI, said: ‘The crew was told the woman had been drinking and she had been challenged by a friend to race to one of the yellow marker buoys that could be seen from the beach.

‘The woman and her friend entered the water and began swimming but got into serious difficulty, swallowing water part way out to the buoy.’