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Coastguard crews, including the service's helicopter, and lifeboat personnel have launched a search following the incident between Dunoon and Gourock on Sunday afternoon.

He was hauled over the inflatable side and taken back to the Cullercoats lifeboat station to be checked over and treated with a bag of gummy sweets.

The court heard a lifeboat had been launched but had not been able to access the site where the body was spotted because of the sea conditions.

Four days later his body was found in the sea and a paramedic at Conwy lifeboat station confirmed his death.

But that was not the case, as the space station always has spacecraft attached to it - which could have acted in an emergency as a lifeboat to carry the astronauts back to Earth.