A 10-YEAR-OLD who has washed out to sea in Barmouth was rescued last week, just one of a succession of call outs the RNLI and beach wardens dealt with.

On Tuesday afternoon, 23 August, Barmouth RNLI launched to go to the aid of two people in the sea opposite the lifeboat station.

The beach was crowded with holidaymakers on a sunny afternoon with a light north-westerly force two wind.

When the inshore lifeboat arrived at the water’s edge, the two people had been helped ashore by Gwynedd Beach Patrol.

It appeared that a 10-year-old boy, who had been body boarding off the beach, panicked when he found he had drifted 100 yards offshore and his father raced in to help him.

The alarm was raised by another holidaymaker, who was in a dinghy nearby, and who stayed with the boy until he was assisted ashore by the Beach Patrol.

Following the conclusion of the incident, the volunteer RNLI crew were then tasked to investigate reports of struggling swimmers in the entrance of the harbour where they found a lilo with two swimmers unable to return to shore against the fast flowing ebb tide.

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