It happens every summer, as predictable as rain stopping play at Wimbledon. Yes, it’s the peak season for people getting stranded on Cramond Island …
Three people were rescued by lifeboat after being cut off by rising tides in the Firth of Forth yesterday.
Coastguards received a call shortly after 2pm from a man on Cramond Island who thought he had broken his leg.
Two members of the Queensferry lifeboat were dropped off to search for him, and when the causeway linking the island to the mainland then became flooded by tidal waters two other people also had to be brought to safety.
HM Coastguard’s Jonathan Mustard said: “This was a well co-ordinated response to this incident. All those involved regularly carry out training for this sort of incident and the way this was handled today shows why that training matters.”
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