A man's been rescued after drifting out to sea in a toy dinghy that was too small for him.
The RNLI says if the alarm hadn't been raised, they could have been bringing back a dead body.
The man, who is believed to be in his 30s, was pulled to safety on Monday evening as he drifted in the North Sea.
He was taken on board the lifeboat and returned to the beach, where a coastguard team was waiting to give him sea safety advice.
Dave Cocks is lifeboat operations manager at Redcar RNLI.
He said: "This is a good example of the types of incident we repeatedly warn people about.
"It was a reasonably pleasant evening but the wind and tide were a recipe for this to happen.
"He was dressed in only a hoodie and shorts. He was bigger than the dinghy so his feet were hanging over the edge.
"If the alarm hadn't been raised there was every likelihood he'd have drifted out of sight of land and we could well have been bringing a dead body back."
They have released a video of the operation:
