HM Coastguard Rescue Turns Out to be Real “Dummy”

Always at the ready, HM Coastguard turned out on New Year’s Eve for a rescue call, but after some tense moments realized it was a “dummy.” Having some fun with the callout, the team posed with the “rescued” subject and posted it online for a lighter moment.

HM Coastguard Fleetwood, covering a section of the Lancashire coast above Blackpool in the North West of England on the Irish Sea, got the callout at 1030 on December 31. It was a report of a person or “person-shaped object” drifting in the water off the coast.