The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.47 p.m. on 16th April, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a skin diver was in difficulties off the Lizard outer rocks and was drifting away from his dinghy.

The life-boat City of Edinburgh, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 2.5. The tide was flooding. The life-boat found the skin diver and took him aboard. Two Royal Navy helicopters were also present in the area. A local fishing boatrecovered the dinghy. The skin diver was landed at Cadgwith, and the lifeboat returned to her station at 3.15..