Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 6.10 p.m. on 5th April, 1970, it was learnt that a motorised rubber dinghy with three skin divers aboard had run out of fuel and was drifting seaward off Dalkey island. Two of the divers had swum ashore and tried to return in a borrowed motor dinghy but this too had run out of fuel. The life-boat John F. Kennedy immediately slipped her moorings at 6.53 in a gale force wind with a rough sea. It was low water. At 7.15 she came up with the first dinghy about one and a quarter miles west of South Benford buoy. About two miles further east she came up with the second craft. The three skin divers were taken aboard the life-boat and both boats were taken in tow to Dun Laoghaire. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 8.20..