The National Sea Rescue Institute responded to
Bakoven to offshore where 5 people including children were in difficulty.
NSRI Spokesperson Craig Lambinon said when they arrived on scene they found 2 adults males, an adult female, 2 female children clinging onto a capsized canoe and being swept out to sea.
“It appears that all 5 people had been out
on an afternoon paddle, an adult male, an adult female and their daughter, on a
canoe, and an adult male and a female child on a Stand-Up Paddle Board, when
the canoe capsized in an increasing gusting off-shore wind that came up quite
suddenly and increased to a gusting 25 knots.” Lambinon added.
He concluded by saying that they were all
rescued onto the Bakoven Sea Rescue craft and taken to a shore and treated for hypothermia
and exhaustion but they required no further medical assistance.
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