SOUTHEND-ON-SEA | 3 NOVEMBER
Southend’s search and rescue hovercraft crew launched to reports of five people in the water struggling to get ashore. The volunteers quickly located three of them – waist-deep in water 200m offshore – and helped them back. The remaining two made it on their own. The group had got into difficulty in the soft sand and incoming tide, after going down to the water’s edge for a baptism.