AN ex-fisherman had alcohol at four-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit in his system when he decided to go for a swim off Cleethorpes beach, an inquest heard.
Walter Dobson, 62, of Tom Hammond Way, Grimsby, had been drinking with two friends on the Central Promenade when he decided to take a dip in the Humber at about 11am on June 30.
Shortly afterwards he was seen floating face-down in the water and Cleethorpes Lifeboat crew was dispatched to rescue him, at inquest at Cleethorpes Town Hall heard today.
He was pronounced dead at Grimsby's Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital shortly afterwards.
See tomorrow's Grimsby Telegraph for Mr Dobson's daughter's praise for the lifeboat crew.
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