Coastguard Rescue Teams from Newhaven and Burling Gap are working to rescue a person...

Published: 9:24 pm May 16, 2020
Updated: 5:31 am October 8, 2025
Major cliff operation after COVIDOT  get cut off by incoming tide in Seaford – UKNIP

 

Coastguard Rescue Teams from  Newhaven and Burling Gap  are working to rescue a person  who has become stuck on the cliffs at Seaford  this evening (Saturday).

The incident is currently unfolding after the alarm was raised by a member of public advised of the stranded  casualty  sometime around 7pm advising that they had been cut off by the incoming tide.

A number of  reports have been made on social  hearing the multiple emergency teams responding to the area.

 

A cliff technician has been lowered over the cliff edge to retrieve the casualty , who understood to have travelled down from London and  is uninjuried.

 He was unable to self-rescue from his predicament.

The man’s  adventure with guitar  resulted in around 10 Coast Guard Officers from across 2 teams being sent to the man’s aid.

 

Picture:Nick Drake

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