Thames CG requested the immediate launch of the lifeboat to a report of two swimmers in difficulties near Whitstable Street.

The lifeboat crew located the swimmers 100 yards offshore. A council lifeguard had paddled out on a rescue board to assist, and was standing by them. The swimmers, a male aged 17 and a female aged 16,  were brought aboard the lifeboat, and landed back on the beach, to be met by their parents and the local Coastguard Sector Manager.