Man rescues father and son off the Cork coast
The pair were washed out to sea when a freak wave hit them as they paddled their kayaks off Barleycove, near Mizen Head, at 2.30pm.
“We had a call from the man’s wife who was on the beach,” said Danny Lynch of the Valentia Coast Guard. “We sent the helicopter and the Goleen Coast Guard but before they got there a man on his bodyboard went out and got the two back in.” The pair had been kayaking when a wave hit them and threw them out of their boats. The father and son then became separated from their kayaks and drifted out to sea while the man’s wife watched helplessly from the shore.
