A missing person was rescued by a coastguard helicopter on Sunday.
Rescue teams including the Eastbourne RNLI were called out at 12.40pm after a missing person was spotted in a "difficult location".
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A spokesman for RNLI Eastbourne said: "This morning, just as our RNLI volunteers were washing down after our weekly exercise, the pagers sounded with a request from Solent Coastguard.
"Our D-Class Inshore Lifeboat David H launched in response to a missing person to the west of Eastbourne.
"It made best speed to the area in torrential rain and arrived alongside the coastguard helicopter from Lydd 'Rescue 163', and coastguard rescue officers from Eastbourne, Birling Gap and Newhaven.
"Rescue 163 quickly located the casualty and performed a winch rescue, as the casualty was in a difficult location, and was handed over to waiting ambulance crews."
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