Coastguards tasked to Weymouth Harbour after hoax call (From Dorset Echo)
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Coastguards tasked to Weymouth Harbour after hoax call
8:36am Thursday 11th October 2012 in News
COASTGUARDS launched a major rescue operation after a caller reported that a person was drowning in Weymouth Harbour.
South West Ambulance alerted rescue teams at around 1.30pm yesterday afternoon.
The Weymouth RNLI Lifeboat was tasked alongside the harbour boat Melway and local vessel Meridian Express.
It was later confirmed that the call was a malicious hoax.
