Tenby’s all-weather lifeboat was requested to launch for the second time today (Friday, June 18) at 3.30 pm, following a report that a tourist had fallen on Caldey Island, suffering several injuries.

The Haydn Miller lifeboat was quickly on the water, with members of Tenby Coastguard Rescue Team also aboard to assist.

Once at the island, the Coastguard team, along with one of the lifeboat crew, who was trained in casualty care, were taken up to the area that the casualty was situated.

After assessing the casualty, who had suffered head and arm injuries, and due to the fact there were no Welsh Ambulance Service assets available, it was decided that the safest way of getting him to hospital would be by air, so Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 187 was tasked to assist for the second time in the day.

The helicopter was soon overhead, and the lifeboat crew assisted in stabilising the casualty and transporting him to the landing site at the Lighthouse, before he was loaded onto the aircraft for the flight to hospital.

Once the helicopter was in the air, the lifeboat crew and coastguard headed back to Tenby, arriving at 5.15 pm.