An unwell mother and her eight-year-old son were rescued from Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) during the latest episode of Coastguard: Every Second Counts. On the Sunday, July 9 episode of the Channel 5 show His Majesty’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) are called to the scene after the child suffered appendicitis and no sooner had they arrived, the mother had her own health problems.
The coastguard helicopter from Caernarfon was confronted with hordes of people on the mountainside and had to navigate over them as its crew tried to land, North Wales Live reports. The ultimately successful operation attended by emergency services on April 8 features in the new Channel 5 documentary series about the vital work of coastguards around the UK.
The crew help the child and his mother who says she suffers from "flicker vertigo." Let us know in the comments if you’ve been watching Coastguard: Every Second Counts.
The mother and her son are taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor. A crewman carries the young boy into hospital for further treatment as his mother is also looked after. At the end of the episode the mother revealed that she stayed in the hospital with her son for three nights. The young boy received an operation and was discharged 24 hours afterwards.
Elsewhere in the episode the MCA’s Regulatory Compliance Investigations Team looked into an incident on the Isles of Scilly, where passengers on a speedboat were lucky to escape with their lives intact. The investigating team headed back to the scene to examine how the accident occured.
Viewers also saw a Newquay coastguard rescue helicopter tasked with rescuing a French yacht in trouble in the English Channel. Coastguard: Every Second Counts is available to watch on My5 and for more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.
