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.