The Belfast Coastguard came to the rescue of three people who had been found drifting off a Scottish coast on an inflatable mattress on Thursday evening.
The trio had drifted out to sea on an inflatable and had to be saved in an emergency rescue mission off the coast in North Ayrshire.
RNLI crews sprang into action at around 8.43pm on Thursday June 8, following reports from Belfast Coastguard that a group had been seen clinging to the inflatable mattress off Irvine.