Synopsis

Blackpool Coastguard responded to a call reporting a teenager swept out to sea, visible from the main beach. Meanwhile, along the Kent coast, the Margate team initiated a hurried search for two paddleboarders – a father and son – who had drifted two miles offshore. In Porthcawl, a crew member’s wedding was interrupted when an alert sounded for two individuals stranded by the tide. And in Dunbar, on Scotland’s east coast, the team received a report of a dog stranded on rocks, hundreds of metres f