Woman and grandaughter cut off by tide on new Brighton beach
LONDON. April 3, 2008/3mnewswire.org/-- A woman and her granddaughter, who were out on New Brighton beach walking their two dogs, had to be rescued from the rising tide today.
Liverpool Coastguard received a flurry of 999 calls today at 6.00 pm reporting that the woman and girl, along with the two dogs, were stuck on a mud flat half a mile out from shore. Liverpool Coastguard requested the New Brighton RNLI inshore lifeboat and the New Brighton RNLI hovercraft to launch. The New Brighton Coastguard rescue team were also requested to attend and keep the grandmother and granddaughter under observation. The inshore lifeboat took the two on board along with their dogs and brought them to shore, wet but unharmed.
"We strongly advise members of the public to check tide times and to pay particular attention to conditions around them whilst at the beach," says Paul Parkes, Liverpool Coastguard Watch Manager. "The tide comes in more quickly than a person can run and hidden gullies can result in people being cut off from the shore very quickly. These people were a long way out from the shore and had obviously not noticed the water flooding in around them until it was too late."
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