Coastguard Rescue Four from Capsized Speedboat

Just after 8 am this morning UK Coastguard received multiple 999 calls from members of the public reporting that a speedboat had crashed into a cardinal marker and capsized, just outside the Hamble River, close to the Warsash Maritime Academy.

The Coastguard requested the Search and Rescue helicopter from Lee-on-Solent to the scene along with both RNLI lifeboats from Calshot.

The speedboat had four people on board. All four have sustained injuries.

James Way, Maritime Operations Controller for the Coastguard said,

Our rescue assets were on scene quickly. All four people were transferred by lifeboat to the shore, they are all being taken to Southampton General hospital by road ambulance.


The Police and the Marine Accident Investigation Branch have been informed.

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