Shoreline river search for missing person.

Launch No: 23
Craft: Spirit of the Dart. D-702
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Location: Initially a search of the river, Old Mill Creek to Dartmouth Castle.

The Lifeboat was tasked by the Coastguard to join the search for a missing person. There was an initial Police briefing at the Station and a decision to search the river from Old Mill Creek to Dartmouth Castle. When that area had been covered they were tasked to search the river bank from Blackness Rock, Dittisham, back to Dartmouth. The missing person then contacted the Police who were able to narrow the search to the Warfleet area. The ILB was tasked to search Warfleet creek. The missing person was found by one of the mobile Coastguard team on Gallants Bower and referred to Hospital.

Time

Request Received 1:38pm
Time at incident Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.6 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 36 minutes
Time to recovery Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 2.5833333333333335 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 2 hour, 35 minutes
Back on Service 4:23pm

Conditions

Sea/River State River Calm
Wind Direction Northwest
Wind Strength 5 knots

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Shore Crew

Deputy Launch Authority

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North Embankment
Dartmouth
Devon TQ6 9RR

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