Tenby’s RNLI crew, lifeguards and coastguard were on hand today to assist a casualty suffering from severe chest pains on a busy South Beach.

The inshore lifeboat was launched shortly after 5 pm, after a request from the RNLI beach lifeguards.

The volunter crew were soon on scene and joined the lifeguards, along with members of Tenby Coastguard Rescue Team and also an off duty GP and a nurse that had offered their help in treating the casualty.

With the Welsh Ambulance Service extremely busy with no ambulances available and the casualty needing to get to hospital quickly, Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 187 from St Athan was tasked and was soon overhead.

Members of the lifeboat crew and coastguards then assisted the Paramedic in immobilising the casualty and carrying him to the awaiting aircraft, before he was flown to hospital for treatment.