{"id":348667,"date":"2026-01-02T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348667\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:52:11","slug":"two-missing-after-getting-in-difficulty-in-sea-in-withernsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348667\/","title":{"rendered":"Two missing after getting &#8216;in difficulty&#8217; in sea in Withernsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David McKenna,East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire,<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Whiteand<\/p>\n<p>Paul Murphy,in Withernsea<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766238669_168_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b9752650-e7fd-11f0-9c3d-2959bd14fc02.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Darrin Stevens Shot of a fire engine, police car and emergency workers on the seafront in Withernsea.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Darrin Stevens<\/p>\n<p>A search operation involving multiple emergency services is currently taking place in Withernsea, East Yorkshire<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two people are missing after getting into difficulty in the sea at Withernsea, HM Coastguard has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The incident was reported at the seaside town in East Yorkshire at 15:10 GMT, resulting in a major search involving a rescue helicopter, air ambulance and another aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Withernsea&#8217;s RNLI inshore lifeboat, an all-weather lifeboat from Bridlington and Hornsea Inshore Rescue are in attendance, along with Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Humberside Police and Humberside Fire and Rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Hornsea Inshore Rescue said it had faced &#8220;horrendous conditions&#8221; earlier and there had been 9.8ft (3m) waves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A large cordon is in place along the seafront and the operation involves about 100 members of the emergency services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The search remained ongoing, the Coastguard added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An eyewitness described &#8220;wall-to-wall&#8221; blue lights and said conditions were &#8220;bitter and freezing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766238669_168_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/16dfb170-e803-11f0-aae2-2191c0e48a3b.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Amanda White\/BBC Lifeboat crews on a ramp to the beach area at Withernsea. They are dressed in yellow and black and are wearing helmets. There is a parked police car in the foreground.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Amanda White\/BBC<\/p>\n<p>Crews at the scene in Withernsea, where a cordon is in place<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Darrin Stevens, who lives nearby, said he had witnessed lots of emergency vehicles and crews in the vicinity of the beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just blue lights, wall-to-wall from one side to the other,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He described the weather conditions as &#8220;bitter and freezing&#8221;, with snow earlier and  high waves at sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not a good place to be in the sea,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766238669_168_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e6777d80-e800-11f0-9c3d-2959bd14fc02.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Darrin Stevens Three RNLI volunteers dressed in yellow and black and wearing life jackets walking past a parked police van. \" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Darrin Stevens<\/p>\n<p>RNLI crews from Withernsea, Bridlington and Hornsea Inshore Rescue are assisting in the search<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Local vicar, Rev Ian Greenfield, said he was on hand to offer emotional support and prayers for &#8220;these courageous men and women who are here, possibly risking their own lives to save somebody that might be out at sea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766238669_168_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c1c6c610-e807-11f0-9c3d-2959bd14fc02.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"BBC\/David Rimmington A row of police officers standing by a sea wall shining lights out to sea. \" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>BBC\/David Rimmington<\/p>\n<p>Humberside Police officers shining lights out to sea to help assist with the search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David McKenna,East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, Amanda Whiteand Paul Murphy,in Withernsea Darrin Stevens A search operation involving multiple emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-348667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}