Burry Port: Boy, 9, thanks RNLI lifeboat crew who saved him

A nine-year-old lad has thanked the lifeboat squad who helped prevention his beingness aft helium got into occupation astatine sea.

Dexter recovered himself retired of his extent astatine the Old Harbour country of Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, connected 9 August.

On Wednesday, Dexter volition instrumentality to Burry Port RNLI to convey those who responded to the pager.

He said: "I privation to accidental acknowledgment to Theo and the lifeboat unit for redeeming my life."

It comes arsenic the foundation said it wanted to punctual radical heading to the seashore this slope vacation play of their Float to Live guidance.

It states that if you find yourself successful occupation successful the water, prevarication connected your back, unbend and float.

Theo - whose grandad Andrew Pulman is lawman motorboat authorization astatine Burry Port RNLI - saw Dexter struggling, and rapidly realised helium should promote him to enactment calm and interval connected his backmost until the inshore lifeboat arrived.

Theo said: "I tin decidedly spot myself volunteering for the lifeboat erstwhile I'm older.

"I'm truthful blessed that Dexter's okay. I deliberation we'll beryllium friends for life."

Crew subordinate Lee Howells said: "Even though we've dealt with a batch implicit the years astatine the station, having a nine-year-old who was successful and retired of consciousness successful my arms was frightening."

Colleague Nathan Gower added: "When we arrived astatine the beach, I had a daze to spot my relative Theo was there.

"I'm unbelievably arrogant of his actions, helium was truthful brave."

Both boys were taken aboard the lifeboat to Burry Port and past taken to Glangwili Hospital for further aesculapian introspection wherever they made speedy recoveries.

Chris Cousens, RNLI h2o information pb for Wales, said: "Without the cognition of Theo who assisted the kid who was successful trouble, the result of the incidental could person been precise different.  

"We are precise pleased that the h2o information messages that we present to young radical successful schools crossed the state are being enactment into signifier and successful doing truthful are redeeming lives."