Agany of jet skier

A SEAFORD man was rescued by the Newhaven Lifeboat when he broke his back in a jet ski accident.

Forty-year-old Graham Deubert, of Richmond Road, was injured when he was thrown over the vehicle's handlebars at sea on Saturday afternoon.

Newhaven RNLI spokeswoman Pat Johns said: 'He had somersaulted over the handlebars of the jet ski and had extreme back pain after landing in the water. The Coastguard was alerted by a passing fishing vessel and his two friends went into the water and supported him until the Lifeboat arrived.'

She added: 'Two Lifeboat crew entered the water and sunk a rigid stretcher under him and then he was carefully lifted on to the Lifeboat and taken at a slow speed into Newhaven harbour where an ambulance was waiting.'

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