Volunteers conducted an overnight search after a 999 call that someone was at risk off the coast of West Cumbria.
Volunteers from Workington RNLI and Whitehaven and Maryport Coastguard teams were called in the early hours of today, Friday May 24, to help search for a person off the coast at Harrington.
Workington RNLI’s all-weather lifeboat Dorothy May White and inshore lifeboat John F Mortimer were launched at 1.55am.
Colleagues from Whitehaven and Maryport Coastguard rescue teams were searching the shore and a Coastguard helicopter was sweeping the coast to search for the person.
The call had been made by a concerned member of the public at Harrington Marina who had seen a person they believed intended on entering the water.
Cumbria police and the Coastguard rescue teams were sent to the scene to investigate.
Shoreline and land search areas were expanded, and Burgh-by-Sands Coastguard Rescue Team were tasked to attend and relieve some of the Coastguard searchers on scene who had been involved in other search taskings over previous days.
Whitehaven Coastguard Rescue Team said: “Teams undertook a thorough hub search in the vicinity of Harrington Marina, whilst our co-ordination centre staff and police undertook further enquiries.
“Attempts to make further contact with the first informant were unsuccessful.
“With nothing found from the initial search phase, all information available was assessed and the decision was made for additional assets to be tasked to assist.
“With all land, air and sea searches completed with nothing found, local anglers in the area reporting not having seen or heard anything, and no further information available, the search was suspended early this morning pending any further new information.”
Services were stood down at around 4.45am.
