{"id":691255,"date":"2026-01-12T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691255\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:49:11","slug":"person-rescued-near-cramond-island-in-firth-of-forth-after-drifting-on-inflatable-mattress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691255\/","title":{"rendered":"Person rescued near Cramond Island in Firth of Forth after drifting on inflatable mattress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A casualty has been rescued from the Firth of Forth after drifting on an inflatable mattress near to Cramond Island. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RNLI Queensferry launched a rescue mission at 9.18am on Sunday following reports of a person on an inflatable mattress who had fallen into the water east of the island but managed to self-recover.<\/p>\n<p>The casualty had been on the water since around 8am, with sea temperatures estimated at just 7C.<\/p>\n<p>The lifeboat quickly located the individual, who was wet and showing signs of \u201cextreme cold\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/56f82a1a89ccb60ba85f58d503d559d4-1768216071.jpeg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"901\"   alt=\"Rescue: The casualty was recovered.\"\/>RNLI via SuppliedRescue: The casualty was recovered. RNLI via Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer crew members recovered both the casualty and the mattress onto the lifeboat and wrapped the person in warm clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Due to concerns over the casualty\u2019s condition, it was decided that rapid evacuation and medical assistance were required.<\/p>\n<p>The lifeboat transported the individual to Granton Harbour, where they were handed over to the Scottish Ambulance Service, including a specialist SORT team, along with South Queensferry Coastguard Rescue Team.<\/p>\n<p>The incident marked Queensferry Lifeboat\u2019s fourth emergency call-out of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A casualty has been rescued from the Firth of Forth after drifting on an inflatable mattress near to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-691255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115882686831085996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}