hospital after catching hypothermia when getting into difficulty in the Moray Firth. A rescue operation was launched after a local heard the man shouting for help at around 8.20pm on Monday and called police, who alerted the coastguard.
A coastguard helicopter went to the scene off Nairn along with Kessock RNLI inshore lifeboat, Moray inshore rescue boat, which is independent, and coastguard teams from Inverness and Nairn.
The swimmer was winched into the helicopter and flown to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.He got into difficulty after being caught out by the tide and was said to be severely hypothermic when rescued as he had been in the water for around two hours.Kessock Lifeboat told of the incident on their Facebook page.A post read:.
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