SKIN DIVER RESCUED Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 5.30 p.m. on 26th September, 1965, the coxswain was told by the coastguard that a skin diver was in difficulties a quarter of a mile south of the station. The life-boat crew were asked to stand by, and shortly afterwards the coastguard requested the life-boat to launch. The life-boat Friendly Forester launched at 6 o'clock in a gentle, gusting to moderate south-easterly breeze and moderate sea. It was one hour before high water. The skin diver was found clinging to the cliff face. He was being pounded by the heavy sea swell.

The life-boat dropped anchor about eighty yards from the cliff and came astern on the cable to the cliffs. When the life-boat was twenty feet away from the cliff a wave broke over the man and he lost his grip and fell into the sea. Fortunately he was able to hold on to a line thrown to him and he was taken on board the life-boat. It was found that his leg had been injured by the heavy seas, which had pounded him whilst clinging to the cliff face. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.35 p.m..