Selsey Lifeboat Station - Launches
15th May 2008
Woman Trapped in Rocks
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Selsey inshore lifeboat Betty and Thomas Moore launched at 1347 to assist an elderly woman who had slipped on seaweed and was trapped in-between rocks.
The ILB arrived on scene at 1353 approximately 200 metres west of the end of Warner Road to find local coastguards already on scene trying to extricate the woman who had slipped approximately 15 metres down a weed covered sea defence slope, off the end and head first into the rock armament. The woman was stuck almost out of sight. Between the coastguards and the lifeboat crew the woman was carefully pulled from the rocks in a lot of pain, she was then placed in a rigid stretcher and transported by the lifeboat 200 metres further west to the coastguard station where at 1415 she was landed and transferred to paramedics and a waiting ambulance which then transported her to hospital. At 1421 the lifeboat returned to station recovering straight away and was ready for service once more at 1445.
The woman was extremely lucky that the tide was fairly low, had this incident occurred at high tide she would have almost certainly of drowned before any assistance would have reached her.
CREW: R.Archibald (Helmsman), D.Lamdin, S.Borg.
WIND: NE 2. SEA: Smooth. WEATHER: Overcast.