Ryde Inshore Rescue had a busy start to the weekend with two call-outs within six hours.
They were first paged at 18.30 hours Friday evening to a 14′ fletcher motor boat, which had lost its engine mid channel with container ships bearing down on it.
The Wightlink car ferry, St Clare, stood by for safety until Ryde Rescue 1 arrived on scene and towed the vessel with two persons on board out of dangers way and took her to Gosport Slip where it was recovered.
Then shortly after mid-night the crew were paged again to reports of a female in the water near Binstead Fishing Club.
Ryde Rescue 1 started a search of the area until it was confirmed that the woman had returned safely ashore where she was met by other emergency services.
