Poor summer weather blamed for drop in lifeboat call outs
Bad weather is being blamed for a drop in the number of times lifeboats were launched this summer.
New figures released by the RNLI show there were 21 call outs between June 1 and August 31.
That’s a drop from last year’s tally of 30.
The Island’s busiest station was Peel which saw the lifeboat launched seven times – an increase from 2011.
Malcolm Kelly from the station says some of the problems they dealt with were also down to bad planning:
Malcolm Kelly
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