A report of a missing person around Saundersfoot and Tenby sparked a multi-agency search to help find the coastal walker.

Both of Tenby’s lifeboats were requested to launch shortly before 6pm on Wednesday, October 2, with the crews quickly on the water, tasked with a coastline search for a person that had left Saundersfoot earlier in the day with the intent to walk to Tenby along the coast path. When he failed to arrive in Tenby on time, his family raised the alarm.

After a brief search, the lifeboats found the casualty lying on rocks between Monkstone and Swallowtree. The inshore lifeboat put casualty care trained crew members ashore to perform an assessment and begin treatment.

In the meantime, a Coastguard rescue helicopter was requested which arrived overhead just as the casualty was being transferred to the all-weather lifeboat, so the paramedic was winched to the deck and treated the casualty with assistance from the crew.

Both of Tenby’s lifeboats were requested to launch shortly before 6pm on Wednesday, October 2, with the crews quickly on the water, tasked with a coastline search for a person that had left Saundersfoot earlier in the day with the intent to walk to Tenby along the coast path.
Both of Tenby’s lifeboats were requested to launch shortly before 6pm on Wednesday, October 2, with the crews quickly on the water, tasked with a coastline search for a person that had left Saundersfoot earlier in the day with the intent to walk to Tenby along the coast path. (Tenby RNLI)

The lifeboat made its way back to Tenby shortly after 8pm, transferring the casualty into the care of Paramedics from the Welsh Ambulance service, who took him to hospital to be checked over.

Also involved in the search were members of HM Coastguard Tenby and Dyfed-Powys Police.