Exmouth lifeboat crew responds to Mayday call
Published:
8:30 PM September 14, 2009
Updated:
10:43 PM November 6, 2020
EXMOUTH lifeboat crew and the coastguard helicopter carried out a search of Lyme Bay on Sunday after a Mayday alert was received.
EXMOUTH lifeboat crew and the coastguard helicopter carried out a search of Lyme Bay on Sunday after a Mayday alert was received.
Exmouth and Teignmouth inshore lifeboats joined the search from the River Exe to Berry Head but nothing was found.
A coastguard spokesman it had received a spoken word Mayday on VHF Channel 16 and put out a broadcast on the radio.
A spokesperson said: "We tasked the helicopter and the Exmouth offshore and Teignmouth inshore lifeboats, who saturated the search area but they didn't find anything.
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"It could have been a hoax or sometimes it happens when someone is being trained.
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