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Son of a lost fisherman nominated for a 2021 Young Scot Award after his incredible fundraising efforts
It might have claimed his father’s life but Keiran Reid has a special affinity with the sea, remembering the days his dad would take him dolphin watching on the Moray Firth. The schoolboy was just six when fisherman Craig, 25, was washed overboard from the trawler Apollo in a gale-force storm off Orkney. A frantic search – involving helicopters, the Kessock Lifeboat and French and American aircraft diverted from a Nato exercise – was stood down after nine hours. Three months later, another fishing boat found Craig’s body. But only weeks after his father’s death, Keiran, now 11, from Avoch on the Black Isle, started raising money for the local rescue team who had searched so tirelessly for his dad. >click to read< 20:00
10-year-old raises over KSh 339k for charity that helped find his lost fisherman dad
When his father went missing overboard from a fishing boat in April 2016, Keiran was hopeful the coast guards and a team of volunteers would find him. However, the 10-year-old’s hopes were dashed after hours turned into days, weeks and eventually months before his father Craig Reid’s body was found. He then decided to raise thousands of pounds for the charity that had teamed up with the coast guards to look for Reid >click to read< 07:18
