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Into the surf

RESCUE6When three teenage girls got trapped in a gulley at the base of cliffs in Caerfai Bay on 5 August, their lives were very much in danger. St Davids’ eponymous D class Saint David Dewi Sant was launched but couldn’t get close enough due to a heavy swell and breaking surf. Crew members entered the water, swam to the girls and helped them back to the lifeboat. The rescuees were then transferred to the Tyne class all-weather lifeboat Garside and brought ashore to their relieved parents.