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# Major search and rescue operation launched in Newquay for 'person in difficulty in the water'
- URL: https://www.plymouthplus.co.uk/major-search-and-rescue-operation-launched-in-newquay-for-person-in-difficulty-in-the-water/
- Published: 2025-12-27T20:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-29T18:31:30.000Z
- Author: Seamus McCoy
- Tags: HM Coastguard, News, #editors-picks

A major search and rescue operation has been launched in Cornwall this evening amid a report of a ‘person in difficulty in the water’.

The search is underway within the vicinity of Tolcarne Beach in Newquay.

[HM Coastguard](https://www.plymouthplus.co.uk/tag/hm-coastguard/) has deployed a helicopter, two RNLI lifeboats, and the Newquay and Padstow coastguard rescue teams to the shoreline.

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