Coastguard rescues teenagers taken out to sea

Two teenagers were rescued on Saturday after they were blown to sea on a paddleboard.

The alarm was raised to Guernsey Coastguard at about 16:30 BST and the RNLI St Peter Port Inshore Lifeboat launched at about 16:40 to carry out a search, coastguards said.

Guernsey Coastguard said the lifeboat arrived on the scene at 17:00, by which time the teenagers had been found ashore at the Coupee Sark by a private vessel that had responded to an earlier mayday call broadcast by the coastguard.

As a precautionary measure, the teens were moved to the lifeboat for a medical assessment but were both found to be in good health and were handed to their parents on Dixcart Bay beach.

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The coastguard said the RNLI lifeboat returned to its station at 17:35.

It added it would "to remind people who engage in waterborne activities, to assess the tide and weather and be aware of their own capabilities before entering the water".

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