Sobbing girl floats 800m to sea
<p>A young girl had the scare of her life after she was blown out 800m to sea.</p>
<p>The eight-year-old child had to be tearfully rescued by a speedboat after she had floated away, due to offshore wind on a beach in Rhyl, Wales.</p>
<p>The dramatic moment she was rescued was caught on camera, with the sobbing girl seen clinging to safety once they approached her.</p>
<p>She had been having a day under the sun with family, with her dinghy connected by a rope to a family member before it was accidentally released.</p>
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<p>The UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), a lifeboat search and rescue charity were thankfully up to the mission to grab the youngster.</p>
<p>Video of the child’s rescue was made public.</p>
<p>“It was very lucky that the crew was in the area, attending another call, we they were very quickly on the scene,” Rhyl Lifeboat Station press officer Paul Frost said.</p>
<p>One of the crew could be heard yelling to the girl, “Are you OK, are you alright?”</p>
<p>The eight-year-old’s heartbreaking screams could be heard through the footage, along with pleas to “get out” of the dinghy.</p>
<p>Mr Frost said that although the sea wasn’t rough, there was an offshore breeze “so the dinghy was quickly being blown out to sea.</p>
<p>“The crew was only about two minutes away at the time (of the emergency call),” he said.</p>
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<p>“She had drifted about half a mile off shore.</p>
<p>“But she did the right thing by staying in the dinghy, and not trying to swim to shore.</p>
<p>“She was crying when the crew found her, and they took her back to shore to her family. No medical help was needed – she was just a little bit shaken.</p>
<p>“Her family explained that the dinghy was attached to a line, but they let it go and within seconds it had drifted away.”</p>
