Pockets of air in coat kept girl afloat after she was swept out to sea in Dún Laoghaire

Ed Totterdell (left), lifeboat operations manager at RNLI Dun Laoghaire Lifeboat Station and lifeboat volunteer Andrew Skyes who jumped into the sea to save a young girl. 

A lifeboat volunteer who jumped into the sea to save a young girl has revealed that pockets of air trapped under her coat helped keep her afloat before the rescue.

Andrew Sykes was on board the RNLI lifeboat that reached the girl and pulled her out of the water within eight and a half minutes of receiving the emergency call on Saturday evening.