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Scotland & NI 140/01
6 May 2001
COASTAL SEARCH FOR
PERSON IN WATER
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Coastguard was alerted by Fife Constabulary at approx
01.30 hrs on Sunday 6th May 2001 to a possible person in the
water at Crail Harbour, Fife.
Coastguard called out the
Initial Response team (IRT) from St Andrews Coastguard, by
pager. |
©Beverley Mercer
Crail Harbour
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| The (IRT)
arrived on scene and began an immediate search of the area,
supported within a few minutes by Anstruther Lifeboat which
conducting a systematic search just offshore. The coastguard
teams searching the foreshore, waterline, and cliffs.
By 04.00 hrs with nothing was
found and the search was stood down. It was expected that the
search would recommence around Low Water at 08.00 hrs.
At approx 07.30 hrs the
pagers again went off, this time a full callout, both IRT and
Back-Up Response Teams (BURT’s), were called out, this was
for a follow up search of the area as no further information
on the possible person in the water had been discovered by
Fife Constabulary. |
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RNLI Mersey Class
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This search was
conducted at low water to give the maximum coverage of the
area, again supported by Anstruther Lifeboat for the offshore
part of the search. Two search teams conducted a complete
search of the foreshore between the high and low water marks
over two miles of rocky coastline, by 12.00 hrs the teams had
been stood down with nothing found, and had returned to
Station |
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