article_snippet.sent: The alarm was raised after a man spotted the couple in the water a mile from Dungeness Point, Kent, at 3.30pm – and a rescue boat was sent to help them.
article_snippet.sent: The HM Customs cutter Valiant, which was on the water nearby, and was able to locate the vessel within minutes and spotted a red flare.
article_snippet.sent: A Coastguard spokesman said that the cutter stood by the vessel, ensuring the safety of those in the water, until an RNLI lifeboat from Dungeness arrived to pick the couple in the water a mile up from the water and take the couple in the water a mile ashore.
article_snippet.sent: the cutter stood by the vessel, ensuring the safety of those in the water, until an RNLI lifeboat from Dungeness arrived to pick the couple up from the water and take them ashore were taken to the William Harvey Hospital by the rescue helicopter from RAF Watisham.
article_snippet.sent: The alarm was raised after a man spotted the couple in the water a mile from Dungeness Point, Kent .
article_snippet.sent: Bob Giles, Dover Coastguard Watch Manager said: 'the couple in the water a mile were thrown into the water after the couple in the water a mile vessel capsized. '
article_snippet.sent: the couple in the water a mile were wearing lifejackets and a man ensured that a man partner was safe, then tied a rope around a man and dived under the vessel to retrieve a flare so that a man could alert rescuers to their position. '
article_snippet.sent: Because their had AIS (automatic identification system) on board their were easy to locate and so were rescued quickly. '
article_snippet.sent: The member of the public who made the first call to the Coastguard did exactly the right thing by calling 999 and asking for the Coastguard.
article_snippet.sent: It meant that we were able to get rescuers to the scene within minutes of the vessel capsizing.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Partner had ensured Partner was safe before diving under boat to find flare .
  overturned trimaran had overturned more than a mile off the coast of Kent .
  