The Duke of Cambridge has helped save a 16-year-old girl who was swept away by a rip current in the sea off North Wales.
Prince William was captaining the RAF search and rescue helicopter that plucked the girl from the sea after she and a friend got into distress at Silver Bay in Anglesey.
Master Aircrew Harry Harrison was winched into the water from the Sea King as holidaymakers watched on helplessly from the beach.
"When I got to her, the elder girl was clearly exhausted and was going under the water for what was the very last time," he said.
"We never know what we'll face when we're called out. Sometimes it's just a twisted ankle or a broken bone.
Prince William is known as Flight Lieutenant Wales in the RAF "But this was one rescue where we truly did arrive in the nick of time and managed to save this young girl's life."
The other girl had already been taken to shore by a surfer.
The five-member crew of the RAF Sea King picked her up from the beach and took them both to Bangor Hospital.
During the short flight, the 16-year-old girl told the rescuers that she thought she was about to die, according to a spokesman for the RAF.
The rescue is said to have been one of the quickest ever carried out, taking just 38 seconds from when the helicopter took off from RAF Valley on Anglesey to arriving at the scene.
Flight Lieutenant Wales, as William is known in the RAF, carried out his first rescue as a fully operational pilot in October 2010.
