{"id":351964,"date":"2026-01-04T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351964\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:54:07","slug":"man-who-died-trying-to-save-two-people-in-dangerous-sea-was-true-selfless-hero-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351964\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who died trying to save two people in dangerous sea was \u2018true selfless hero\u2019 | Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 67-year-old man who died trying to save two people in difficulty in the sea has been described as \u201ca true selfless hero with a heart of gold\u201d.<\/p>\n

The family of Mark Ratcliffe named him as the man who was pulled unconscious from the sea at Withernsea, East Yorkshire<\/a>, on Friday afternoon. Police said he died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Ratcliffe died trying to rescue two people in the sea. One of those was a 45-year-old woman whose body has been recovered<\/a>. A large-scale sea search for a third person was stood down by the coastguard on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

In their tribute, Ratcliffe\u2019s family said he was \u201ca true selfless hero with a heart of gold, who was so cruelly taken trying to save others\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many lives are now shattered that you\u2019re gone,\u201d they said. \u201cYou were loved by so many people, and we will all miss you for ever. A loving husband, father, son, brother and the best grandad anybody could ever wish for. Sleep tight, we love you, we miss you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to Central Promenade in the East Yorkshire seaside resort on Friday at 3.15pm, responding to reports of there being people in difficulty in the water.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said they had seen people rushing in to rescue a young woman who had fallen into a treacherous sea.<\/p>\n

Humberside police said Ratcliffe\u2019s family would be supported by specialist officers.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said residents would \u201ccontinue to see an increased police presence in and around the area as officers continue to search for the one remaining missing person\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 67-year-old man who died trying to save two people in difficulty in the sea has been described…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-351964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351964","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=351964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}