Published: June 27, 2009
New incident sparks Coastguard search of sea around Brean Down

Fears that another sea swimmer had gone missing led to a search of the Bristol Channel besides Brean Down on Saturday afternoon (June 27th).

An RAF helicopter from Chivenor in Devon, plus two lifeboats from Weston, carried out a search from 1.45pm - but the rescue crews were stood down an hour later when it was decided that the incident had been a false alarm.

An unconfirmed report had been received about the welfare of a swimmer in Weston bay, however a full sea and air search of the bay was carried out and no-one was found to be missing.

It comes just three days after two swimmers went missing in Weston, sparking a huge search operation.

RELATED LINKS:

Coastguard website for Burnham-On-Sea