A woman in her 60s has tragically died after getting in to difficulty in the sea at Skegness.
Following reports of a woman in the water, the RNLA launched a major search while an air ambulance flew over the seaside town in Lincolnshire.
The woman was rescued from the sea at 5pm and brought back to shore but Lincolnshire Police confirmed she was unable to be saved and sadly passed away.
A spokesperson from the RNLI confirmed a lifeboat was launched and CPR carried out on a person at the beach.
A police spokesperson said: ‘We received a call from the Coastguard at 5.39pm yesterday (August, 8) reporting that they had rescued a woman who had got in difficulty in the sea at Skegness.
‘The woman, aged in her 60s, was brought onto shore but sadly she died.
‘Her next of kin are aware. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time.’
The tragic incident comes after the death of Aaron Keightley, 29, who died last month at the same beach where he had been enjoying the summer heatwave.
The woman was rescued from the sea at 5pm and brought back to shore but Lincolnshire Police confirmed she was unable to be saved and sadly passed away (File photo)
The labourer was taken by the current, his sister Shannon Smith said.
Ms Smith launched an online fundraiser to help cover the costs of bringing her ‘selfless and loving’ older sibling’s body home to Leicester, as well as his funeral.
The 26-year-old told the Daily Mail that Mr Keightley had ‘always enjoyed family holidays, but this was his first proper holiday away with friends’.
Speaking from her home in Beaumont Leys, Leicester, she added: ‘He went with two friends and they were having the best time.
‘He’d been so excited for it. He went last Friday for a week, and they’d been to the beach every day.’
Ms Smith said her brother and his friends were ‘just messing about in the waves, no more than knee deep’, when a ‘really big one’ knocked them off their feet.
She added: ‘Aaron could swim, but he wasn’t the strongest swimmer, and he was just dragged out and apparently started panicking.
Aaron Keightley, 29, died last month at the same beach where he had been enjoying the summer heatwave (pictured before he died)
Mr Keightley was able to swim but not well and was dragged out to sea where he panicked his sister said
‘One of his friends tried to help him, but he said by the time he got to Aaron it was already too late.
‘However, he stayed with him the whole time, and did everything he could, even to the point where he was almost drowning himself.’
She said that eventually, with the help of another man who appeared with a dinghy, they managed to get him back out of the sea.
‘Aaron’s friends are absolutely distraught. They are suffering from survivors’ guilt – even though what happened wasn’t their fault. It was a tragic accident.
‘Apparently it happened in 30 seconds. They just did not realise how strong the current could be. There needs to be more warning signs.’
