Emergency crews astonished as 15-year-old walks away from 18-metre plunge at Old Harry Rocks in Studland
clifftop after posing for pictures on its edge left emergency crews astonished after they found him with “just a few cuts and grazes”.
Ian Brown, a station officer for Swanage coastguard, said: “I’ve been doing this for 34 years and we’ve had some miracles … this is certainly one of those. “When we say don’t go near the cliff edge, we mean within 5 metres. Don’t be tempted to even go near it.”Photograph: RNLI Swanage RNLI said its lifeboats were the first at the scene at the base of the cliff on Handfast Point close to Old Harry Rocks. “After an initial assessment the casualty was found to be virtually uninjured with just a few cuts and grazes,” they said.
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