TWO TEENAGERS CALL FOR HELP AFTER BEING LOST FOR SEVERAL HOURS ON ISLE OF SHEPPEY
Two teenage boys who called the Coastguard after wandering around lost and disorientated on the Isle of Sheppey for six hours were reunited with their parents this evening after a search involving a lifeboat, helicopter and coastguard rescue team. Thames Coastguard received the 999 call at 9.30 pm from the two boys, aged 16 and 17, who were staying with family on the Isle of Sheppey but had become lost trying to find their way back to their chalet. They told the Coastguard that they had been wandering for six hours, and had stopped to ask people for directions, but had become totally disorientated and could give little information on their location except to say that they were on a beach at the base of some cliffs. They also gave the description of an emergency marker they had passed some hours before. Thames Coastguard estimated their position and sent the Sheppey Coastguard Rescue Team, also requesting the launch of the Whitstable RNLI Lifeboat. The Rescue Helicopter from