The night shift on 11th February involved the crew being called to a person in the water at Blackfriars Bridge.
Despite a search involving three police boats, a fire boat, the lifeboat and a police helicopter, no trace was found. Subsequent information led the police to believe that there may not have been anyone in the water in the first place.
However there was somebody in the river later on that shift at 0518. A woman had jumped from the Golden Jubilee Walkway and was recovered close to the bow of the Tattershall Castle. The woman was barely keeping herself afloat and was understandably extremely cold once we got her into the lifeboat. She was taken back to Lifeboat Pier where she was handed over to London Ambulance Service (LAS) to be taken to hospital.