Overview

• Over 40 people were rescued on Saturday after being cut off by incoming tides at Brancaster and Wells-next-the-Sea
• Around 30 individuals stranded on a Brancaster sandbank mostly made it back safely with 10 helped by a Hunstanton RNLI hovercraft
• Seven adults, three children and two dogs were pulled from a Wells-next-the-Sea sandbank during the same Saturday operations
• Crews rescued four of six people stranded on Sunday off Wells beach while the remaining two swam ashore unaided
• The RNLI highlights more than 170 tide-related rescues in five years and cautions that knee-deep water and rapidly shifting channels pose a high drowning risk