ARBROATH’S INSHORE and main lifeboats were called into action yesterday afternoon after a teenager suffered an apparent fit while on a camping trip at Calingheugh Bay.

The 17-year-old boy, who has not been named, was with a group of friends in a cove between Arbroath and Auchmithie when he had a seizure—understood to have been his second similar attack of the day.

His friends contacted the emergency services at around 12.30 and, as access by ambulance would have been impossible, it was decided to use the expertise of the RNLI and the Coastguard service to reach the boy.

Both lifeboats were launched and the inshore rigid inflatable vessel arrived at the scene shortly before 1 pm.

The teenager, who was conscious, was assessed by coastguard and lifeboat personnel before being taken directly to Arbroath harbour where ambulance paramedics were waiting.

They treated him at the harbour-side and, when it became clear he did not require hospitalisation, he was allowed away.

An RNLI spokesman said, “It was a medical evacuation rather than a rescue, as such, but it went very smoothly and showed how well we can operate in conjunction with HM Coastguard and the ambulance service.

“After demonstrating our operational methods to the public on Saturday at the Seafront Spectacular, I suppose it was almost certain that we would be called out for the real thing some time over the weekend.”