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Lifeboat goes to incident off the coast at Aberlady
The volunteer crew at North Berwick RNLI launched the charity’s D class inshore lifeboat at 8.56am on Sunday. They had received a report of a person in the water from a sinking vessel off Craigielaw point, Aberlady and Kinghorn RNLI’s B class inshore lifeboat was also launched to the incident. The boat headed into a short, sharp 1.5m wind driven swell. North Berwick lifeboat was on scene half an hour after launch finding the casualty vessel partially submerged, but pushed hard aground on rocks by the westerly conditions. Whilst there was a marker buoy nearby, which the crew say could have been mistaken for a person in the water, both lifeboats started a search of the immediate area whilst Coastguard Rescue Teams carried out inquiries ashore.
