Lifeboat crews off the coast of Ireland rescued a missing swimmer who had been stranded at sea for around 12 hours after dolphins raised the alert. A search party was launched from Castlegregory, County Kerry, on Aug. 22 when abandoned clothes were found on the beach. A volunteer All-Weather Lifeboat crew from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI) Fenit branch was deployed by the Irish Coast Guard at 11 a.m. Fenit RNLI’s inshore lifeboat and a Rescue 115 helicopter joined the search party. At 8:30 p.m. they spotted “a head above the water” among a pod of dolphins, according to RNLI’s press release. “This was a very lucky individual,” Gerard O’Donnell, the operations manager of Fenit RNLI Lifeboat, said in the statement. The volunteer-run organization stated that conditions were “excellent with calm waters and low tide” when the search was undertaken. However, when neither the swimmer nor clues had been found by the afternoon, …