Medical Emergency

At 14:35 this afternoon Holyhead Coastguard received multiple 999 calls reporting a flare sighting in the Rhos on Sea/Colwyn Bay area.


Holyhead Coastguard tasked Llandudno RNLI Inshore lifeboat, an RAF Sea king, Rescue 122 from RAF Valley and ourselves to the scene to locate the source of the sighting.
The Inshore Lifeboat launched from Colwyn Bay slipway and the crew soon located a small dinghy with one man on board suffering an Angina attack. The man had lost his relieving GTN Spray overboard.
He was immediately placed on the Lifeboat and was taken at full speed to shore. The Lifeboat landed ashore with the casualty at the same time Rescue 122 arrived on scene. The RAF winchman, who is a Paramedic, was landed and proceeded to stabilise the casualty. The Helicopter returned a short while later and landed on the beach to take the casualty on board and onto hospital.

Reports of Person in sea

At 19:00 Holyhead Coastguard received a 999 call from a member of public reporting that a "person was in the sea off Llanddulas and waving for help."

Both us and the RNLI Inshore Lifeboat at Llandudno raced to the scene where our team looked for the casualty from shore and the Lifeboat launched to locate the casualty from the water.

Arriving on scene at 19:20 the Lifeboat found that the casualty was in fact a small dinghy containing two anglers enjoying an evenings fishing.

We spoke to the first informant and confirmed that the casualty was in fact the dinghy.

After confirming no more assistance was required we, along with the Lifeboat, returned to station.

Woman found on rock armour at Llanddulas

We received a call at approximately 16:00 this evening by two men who had found a female lying on the rock armour at Llanddulas.

We arrived on scene and decided the best and safest way to extricate her was to go by sea. At 16:15 we radioed Holyhead Coastguard to request the launch of Llandudno's RNLI Inshore lifeboat. The Lifeboat was taken by road to Colwyn Bay where it arrived on scene at about 16:35.

She was placed on a stretcher and taken to the lifeboat. A Welsh Ambulance Service Paramedic accompanied the casualty on the short journey to the Porth Eirias Slipway. The casualty was placed in a waiting ambulance and all were stood down and returned to our bases by 17:20.

                                                       Courtesy Llandudno Lifeboat

Sandbanks Rescues

At about 16:00 on the 19/07 we received reports that multiple persons were in danger of being cut off by the tide on the sandbanks on the West shore.

We arrived to find around 30 people on the sandbanks and were all in fact being cut off by the rapidly rising tide. We immediately donned the appropriate PPE (Lifejackets, Helmets).

We were informed by the Conwy County Borough Council Seaboard Inspector that he had already tried to warn people of the dangers but was ignored. We stood on the edge of the sandbanks on the 'beach side' and used whistles to attract attention. The People were peppered all along the sandbanks so this made it a bit more difficult to attract attention.

We managed to get everybody off safely with the last ones off getting slightly wet. We issued safety advice to all involved and let them on their way.

We were also called out this morning at 07:50 to a Female who had gone for a walk onto the sandbanks. By the time she got back, she was cut off completely. A member of the public signalled her to use the Liferaft moored on the sandbanks while they raised the alarm. The Llandudno RNLI Inshore lifeboat was launched and she was rescued from the sandbanks. She was a French visitor visiting Llandudno on a two day trip. We checked if she needed medical attention and advised her about the dangers before we were returned to station.