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Newquay RNLI respond to early morning shout

Lifeboats News Release

Newquay RNLI volunteers were paged in the early hours on Friday, 2 February. At 1.04am Newquay volunteers were paged and tasked to assist Devon & Cornwall Police in the Perranporth area.

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Newquay's Atlantic 85
The charity's Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat was launched at 1.18am but shortly after launch at 1.22am the lifeboat crew received a stand down call as the incident had been resolved.

While shore crew were launching the Atlantic 85, additional boat crew were arriving and the charity's D class lifeboat was being prepared for launch, the stand down call was received just as the D class was coming out of the garage. Shore crew volunteers swiftly re-housed her and to went to assist colleagues in the recovery of the Atlantic 85.

By 2.10am volunteers were heading home and back to bed.

This was the second shout of the week for Newquay RNLI Lifeboat volunteers.
On Monday, 29 January at 3.34pm a request to launch both lifeboats came from HM Coastguard.

Reports of a surfer caught in a rip at Fistral had been received.

A great number of volunteers responded to the call but fortunately the surfer managed to self recover before either of the lifeboats left the station.

A 'cancel launch' page was received at 3.47 pm and all RNLI volunteers were stood down.

In any coastal emergency dial 999 and ask for the Coastguard.

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