Saving Lives At Sea

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Saving Lives At Sea

The dangers of the water are put into perspective when a father gets himself into serious difficulties after swimming out to try and rescue his young son, while a YouTube prankster deliberately flings himself from Tower Bridge for 'a dare'.

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Season 1
57:46
In the summer months, millions of Britons flock to the UK's 18,000 kilometres of coastline - making it the busiest time of year by far for the RNLI. The army of unpaid volunteers has to contend with everything from overly ambitious novice sailors caught in a storm to a little girl who has become trapped in the rocks below ...
57:57
At the coast in Newquay, the Royal National Lifeboat volunteers and coastguard helicopter are scrambled to try and help a 12-year-old boy on a cub scout coastal trip who has fallen badly and may have damaged his spine. And while no-one relishes the task of recovering the body of someone who has taken their own life, the vo...
58:04
The volunteers of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution staff more than 230 stations covering even the most far-flung areas of Britain's coastline but the busiest station by far is actually miles from the sea, on the river Thames in central London. It was established after the Marchioness pleasure cruiser sank in 1989, c...
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