The lifeboat launched to a report of a jet ski with three people on board waving for assistance 3/4 mile off Herne Bay.

When the lifeboat arrived at 1802 the jet ski, now with one person on board, was being towed into Herne Bay harbour by another jet ski.

The other two occupants, an adult female and a child, had already been brought ashore by a passing angling dinghy.

The family reported that they had only recently purchased the craft, and were out on it for the first time when it capsized, then flooded.