Lifeboat crews were tasked with locating a missing kayaker at sea on Sunday after one of her group raised a Mayday call.
Conditions off Seahouses, Northumberland, were deteriorating when the kayakers alerted emergency services that one of their group had been missing for 15 minutes.
Seahouses RNLI team were notified at 12.47pm and about to launch, when they reached word that the missing woman, aged 52, had been picked up by a passing fishing boat - with lifeboat crews now kept on standby to assess the patient when she was ashore.
