A DARING sea rescue has earned a North Yorkshire lifeguard a top honour.
RNLI Lifeguard supervisor Shaun Messruther is to be awarded one of the RNLI’s highest honours – the Thanks Of The Institution inscribed on vellum – following the rescue of a kayaker from very rough seas at Sandsend last year.
Lifeguards Daniel Wordsworth, 22, and Calum Norman, 18, and three members of Whitby RNLI lifeboat crew – helmsman Hugh Ramsden, 47, and crew members Jamie White, 30, and Stephen Boocock, 31 – will also be recognised for the part they played in the rescue on August 30, which saved the kayaker’s life.
Mr Messruther, 40, from Scarborough, used a rescue board to paddle out 100m from the shore through large breaking waves to reach the man, who was holding on to his kayak.
Mr Messruther managed to manhandle the man on to his rescue board and paddled towards the shore until the inshore lifeboat arrived.
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