Salcombe lifeboat saves distressed man
At around 1:30 am, the RNLI received a call reporting a person calling for help and seeming to be in distress.
A spokesman for the Coastguard said he fell overboard from a dinghy. He was alone. He was rescued and taken to the boathouse.”
A spokesman for RNLI Salcombe said the inshore lifeboat got him out of the water at Salcombe harbour. He was taken to hospital, and thought to be at risk of hypothermia.
“The man had fallen overboard into the harbour area and a lifeboat was called. The lifeboat picked him up and returned him to our crew room where he was kept warm until the arrival of the ambulance which took him to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth."
“He did not have any injuries but he was cold and wet."
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