28 April: Tower A drowning man was pulled from the River Thames and resuscitated by crew and the police after he was spotted floating face down in the water. Helmsman Kevin Maynard explains: ‘One of the police officers managed to grab the person but they struggled to get him onboard, so one of our crew went aboard the police boat and helped. The man was unconscious and not breathing so he was given CPR straight away. We then used a defibrillator on him. We managed to get him breathing although he was still unconscious when we handed him over to an ambulance crew.’