36 Years ago tonight was the Penlee lifeboat tragedy

The Lizard lifeboat was lucky, the outer hull was found to be breached when they hauled out, they hadn't hit anything.

Next morning I was standing near the beach talking to someone, I saw behind him a small boy come out of a holiday cottage and run down the beach, in the lull between two sets of huge waves, it had been 12 feet deep a few moments before. I had my small daughter in my arms, I pointed and yelled, off went my friend and got the boy back, he wouldn't have stood a chance.
About 15 years later on the same date the same boy was on holiday in the same cottage with his teenage friends, they decided to go on a night time trip in a small inflatable, so he nearly lost his life again, lifeboat found them.
 
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