RNLI Moelfre Volunteers Launch to Investigate Capsized Kayak.
Thursday (18/03/2021) at 3.28pm our RNLI all-weather lifeboat Kiwi launched after being tasked by Holyhead Coastguard that a walker had spotted an upturned Kayak near Traeth Dynion, Bull Bay.
The person who alerted the Coastguard did the right thing as the net would not only have been a hazard to shipping it would also have been a danger to wildlife.
With two RNLI crew members onboard Kiwi’s Y-boat (the lifeboat's onboard tender vessel) was launched so that the drifting net could be towed to a nearby beach to the awaiting Cemaes mobile Coastguard team who then used their vehicle and winch to pull the very heavy net safely further up the beach.
Kiwi was back on the slip at 5.30pm to be sanitized and made ready for the scheduled routine training exercise that had her back on the water at 6:30pm.
For further information, please contact Phil Williams, Moelfre Lifeboat Press Officer, on 07773 979910
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