Walmer lifeboat rescues horse after it throws rider and swims out to sea!

[Alfie168]

Well done that crew, say I.

Tim

 

[topline]

Here are a few pics of the incident.

 

[salinia]

As one of the Crew on this service i would like to add a few points.

The first report was to a person and horse in trouble in the sandwich bay area, just after launching the coastguard informed us that the person had made it ashore and the horse was still in difficulty.

If we had left the horse there would be a good chance that the owners and members of the public would try again to rescue the horse and put themselves in danger so the decision was made to save the animal.

At no point was there any danger to the crew as none of us entered the water, at first we tried to shepherd the horse ashore but this did not work so the decision was made to attach a line to the rains and we led it back to shore where she was met by her owners.

Well done! and no doubt saved a few broken hearts in the process.

 

[ColdFusion]

Seconded! Very well done.

 

[sarabande]

that tack is going to need a lot of work on it....


thanks for saving someone's dream.