A little girl, who was swept out to sea in a dinghy off the coast of Wales, has been reunited with her family after a terrifying incident this Monday.
According to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the coastguard center in Rhyl was notified that a young child was aboard an inflatable dinghy that was several hundred meters away from the shore in Kinmel Bay.
“The child's family had kept a safety line to the shore, but it became detached from the shore and the dinghy drifted out,” says a report on the RNLI website.
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A rescue crew was able to quickly reach the little girl, who appears to be elementary school-aged, and safely reunited her with her family. In a video that captured the incident, the crying girl can be heard shouting that she is scared and begging for help.
She appeared to calm down considerably once rescuers told her that they were going to “take you back to your parents.”
Paul Frost, a spokesman for the Rhyl Lifeboat Station, told The Sun that “it was very lucky that the crew was in the area, attending another call. We were very quickly on the scene.”
He continued, noting that “she did the right thing by staying in the dinghy, and not trying to swim to shore. She was crying when the crew found her, and they took her back to shore to her family. No medical help was needed — she was just a little bit shaken.”
The RNLI is a 24-hour search and rescue service that operates over 238 lifeboat stations around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland coasts. The nonprofit organization, which was founded in 1824, depends on donations to maintain its rescue services. To date its crews and lifeguards have saved over 142,700 lives.
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