The lifeguards got down to action on hearing the screams of the six tourists, who were drifting away and managed to rescue them. The rescued tourists were brought back to the shore in a boat with the help of a Naval Coast Guard.

The tourists had been visiting Trincomalee to attend the wedding of a foreign couple at a hotel in Nilaweli. Police Lifeguard Unit OIC, SI Manoj Ariyaratne directed the operation to rescue the tourists who were in difficulty with the help of PCs Marasinghe, Samarasinghe and Madhusanka.