ISLAY’S lifeboat crew was scrambled to join a search for a diver missing off Jura’s east coast.
The Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit II launched at 1pm last Thursday September 7 and arrived near Nine Foot Rock, east of Lowlandman’s Bay, at 1.45pm.
A coastguard rescue helicopter had already located the diver who made his way to shore and was assisted, up the steep and rocky hill, by the local coastguards. The lifeboat with her crew of seven returned to the station at 3.30pm.