Redcar lifeboat launched to rescue stranded boat (From The Northern Echo)
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Redcar lifeboat launched to rescue stranded boat
6:44pm Sunday 29th March 2009 in Search By Daniel Howlett
LIFEBOATS were launched earlier today after a boat became stranded during low tide.
The RNLI boats were launched from Redcar at 1.45pm when a six metre long diving boat carrying five passengers was picked up by a large wave and dumped onto rocks.
RNLI helmsman Mark Reeves said: "When we got there the dive boat was aground on a long flat stretch of rock called Westscar Head."
Once the boat had been guided into deep water it's skipper, a 64 year-old man from Stockton, brought his craft back to the beach at Redcar.
