The Swanage Coastguard team, Rescue 106 , Both Swanage RNLI lifeboats and the St Albans Coastguard were tasked to an area called Cattle Troughs after a climber was swept off a ledge by a huge wave.
Portland Coastland received a 999 call from the emergency phone at Anvil Point at 15.00 saying a climber had fallen.
Rescuers arrived to find the climber had been pulled from the water by a group of climbers near by. The winch man from Rescue 106 was lowered to treated the male whilst Coastguard Rescue Officers stood by at the top of cliffs and both lifeboats covered below.
The male was flown to Dorchester County Hospital for treatment. The Coastguard and lifeboats remained on scene until the other climber made it safely to the top of the cliffs.
It appears the climber was about to start to climb back up the cliff when a large wave swept him off his feet and down the ledge he was standing on.
All units returned to station at 17.30.
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