The UK Coastguard was alerted to the incident just off Cramond Island.
A Scots RNLI crew rescued a person who had fallen from an inflatable mattress into the Firth of Forth.
The UK Coastguard was alerted to reports of a person on an inflatable mattress east of Cramond Island this morning, Sunday, January 11.
The lifeboat team from Queensferry raced to the scene after it was reported that the individual had fallen in the water, but upon arrival at 9:18am they discovered that they had managed to get back onto the mattress. .
The casualty had been in the water for around an hour with the temperature believed to be around 7C so it was decided a rapid evacuation would be required.
They were wrapped up for warmth as the team sped to Granton Harbour in Edinburgh and handed into the care of an ambulance crew.
No more information is available on the person’s condition at this stage.
An image shows the lifeboat arriving on the scene with the inflatable object in the water. Another shows the casualty wrapped in a blanket on the vessel surrounded by RNLI officers.
This was Queensferry RNLI’s fourth shout of 2026. The Record previously reported on three people being rescued by the team from Cramond Island on January 2.
The island is connected to the mainland by a causeway – but the tide came in after the trio arrived in the area.
The RNLI Queensferry inshore lifeboat went to the scene and brought the trio back to shore at Cramond Village, as the coastguard advised people to check tide times before crossing the causeway to the island.
