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Boy, 4, saved by heroic passerby after falling into dock | |
(about 14 hours later) | |
A four-year-old boy who fell into a marina was rescued by a heroic passerby, coastguards have said. | |
The child plunged 6ft (1.8m) into the Old Prince of Wales dock, Swansea Marina, at around 17:00 BST on Saturday. | |
But the quick-thinking 50-year-old man jumped in to save him - without stopping to take off his shoes, | |
Swansea coastguard said the boy wandered away from his mother while she was feeding a one-year-old. | |
Mumbles coastguard rescue team volunteer Mark James said the rescuer had been at the nearby Beefeater restaurant with his family. | Mumbles coastguard rescue team volunteer Mark James said the rescuer had been at the nearby Beefeater restaurant with his family. |
He said: "I don't think he even took his shoes off." | He said: "I don't think he even took his shoes off." |
A coastguard spokesman said the boy's mother realised what was happening when she heard a commotion. | |
He said: "She noticed the child was gone just as she heard the sound of splashing and people in the water. | |
Ladder | |
Mr James said a teenager also jumped in to help bring the boy back up the ladder on the side of the dock. | Mr James said a teenager also jumped in to help bring the boy back up the ladder on the side of the dock. |
The youngster was taken to the city's Morriston Hospital to be checked over. | |
He added the boy "did not appear to be any the worse for his ordeal". |