A man, a woman and a child were rescued from the mudflats near Cuxhaven on Thursday. According to the fire department, the three vacationers were in a life-threatening situation.
The Watt hikers had dialed the emergency call around 12 noon, as the fire department announced on Friday. At the same time, several witnesses called the emergency services. According to the fire department, those affected were a man, a woman and an eight-year-old boy from North Rhine-Westphalia. The woman and the child brought the emergency services to safety with a so-called quad ski. Both had held on to a pole because of the current of the water. The man was also in the water, according to a fire department spokesman. He was escorted to an ambulance on foot. The man and the boy were taken to a clinic.
Sea rescuers warn against hiking on your own
Even before the beginning of the holiday season, the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons (DGzRS) had warned of mudflat hikes without a guide in mid-June. Tourists often misjudged how quickly the water would come back when the tide came in, it said. Again and again, lifeboats have to move out into shallow water because mudflat hikers are exhausted, injured themselves on mussels or sink in mud fields.
Source : Tagesschau
