BOTH Cardigan lifeboats were called out on Tuesday night of last week after a report was received that a couple – understood to be a mother and son - had become cut off by the incoming tide on rocks just north of Tresaith Beach.

The station’s Atlantic 85 class lifeboat Albatross and D-Class Elsie Ida Mead were launched at 6.30pm and the volunteer crews were quickly on scene to help the pair, who had attempted to climb over the rocks to try and make their way to safety.

Volunteer crew members from both lifeboats were put onto the rocks and the couple were given life jackets to wear.  

Shortly after this, the coastguard helicopter Rescue 187 also arrived on scene and one of their crew was landed onto the Atlantic 85 class lifeboat to help give medical assistance to the couple, who had now been transferred into the Albatross.

The lifeboat then made its way to Aberporth Beach were the Coastguard helicopter had landed and an ambulance crew was waiting to assess the medical condition of the duo.

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