SKIN DIVERS SAVED RED flares fired from a skin divers' boat about two miles off Selsey Bill on 28th March led to the Selsey life-boat being launched. A helicopter \vas also called.

The life-boat Charles Henry was launched at 3.12 p.m., and came up with the skin divers' boat at 3.32. The coxswain was told that two divers had not been seen since diving at the Mixon one and a half hours earlier.

The coxswain, having made a careful assessment of the speed and drift of the tide decided to go westward at full speed. Twenty-six minutes later the life-boat, having steamed more than five miles, came up with the divers who had both jettisoned their equipment valued at £200.

They were taken on board the life-boat and landed at Selsey at 4.45.

Apart from the inevitable effects of the cold both men were otherwise fit and well. Considerable local publicity was focused on this service as a life-saving demonstration was in progressthroughout the afternoon at Gosport and the radio messages were relayed to the public who were able to follow the sequence of events leading up to the rescue of the two men. News of the rescue was greeted with loud cheers..