A dramatic rescue operation took place on Monday after a 22-foot motorboat got into trouble 10 miles out at sea causing it to run aground on a sandbank.
The vessel, named Storm, had run aground at an area known as West Barrow Sands causing the boat to loose its rudder and breaking the transom. This meant that the boat started taking on water meaning that it would sink in a matter of time.
It took half an hour for rescues to discover the boat and its two crew men, pumps were placed on boar to start emptying some of the water, however the lifeboat was not strong enough to pull the boat from the sand so a bigger boat had to be called in from Kent.
Winds of Force 6 were tackled by the rescues as they eventually pulled the boat free and towed it back to sure in a rescue operation that took 5 hours, thankfully it was during the day, otherwise the crew may have not be found in time.
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