Saving Lives at Sea
Documentary providing an insight into the lives and motivations of the unpaid volunteers who sacrifice their free time to staff more than 200 RNLI lifeboat stations across the UK.
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Documentary providing an insight into the lives and motivations of the unpaid volunteers who sacrifice their free time to staff more than 200 RNLI lifeboat stations across the UK.

In Dungeness, the crew are called out to a small boat in the middle of the shipping lanes.

57 mins

A fisherman is dragged lifeless out of the sea by bystanders.

59 mins

In Castletownbere, Donagh faces a baptism of fire on his first shout.

59 mins

In Queensferry, near Glasgow, an American visitor is caught out by the tide.

59 mins

RNLI crew members work to pull off the risky evacuation of a fisherman.

58 mins

The Walmer crew responds to reports of a major incident involving a small boat.

59 mins

RNLI crews race to the rescue of a female casualty with a spinal injury.

59 mins

On the north Somerset coast, the Minehead crew head out to rescue two walkers.

59 mins

RNLI crews respond to calls of a swimmer swept out to sea.

58 mins

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