INFORMATION passed to the Coastguard that a swimmer had failed to return to short following what was thought to be a swim to Caldey Island resulted in a multi-agency search which failed to find anyone in distress.
On Sunday afternoon (Jul 26) Coastguard team members, lifeboats and a rescue helicopter were all involved in the operation to try to locate the swimmer.
As RNLI lifeguards looked on from the shore, and lifeboat crews searched from afloat – but after searching for most of the afternoon no swimmer was located.
The coastguard said: “The HM Coastguard Tenby Team was paged at 1318 HRS on Sunday to investigate a potential overdue swimmer in the vicinity of Castle Beach.
“While coastguard officers searched the areas of North beach, Tenby harbour, Castle hill and Castle beach, lifeboats searched the area from the water.
“With nothing located a coastguard rescue helicopter was requested to complete an air search of the area.
“As nothing was located all units were eventually stood down.”
