Saving Lives at Sea

In Dungeness, the crew are called out to a small boat in the middle of the shipping lanes - and discover the casualty is the subject of a major manhunt.

A fisherman is dragged lifeless out of the sea by bystanders and the lifeboat crew race to the beach to join the desperate attempts to resuscitate him.

In Castletownbere, Donagh faces a baptism of fire on his first shout, as the crew rescue a fisherman who has suffered a suspected stroke.

In Queensferry, near Glasgow, an American visitor is caught out by the tide - and is barely conscious when the RNLI crew drag him out of the water.

RNLI crew members work to pull off the risky evacuation of a fisherman, race to rescue a fishing trawler that has run aground and assist a yacht that has lost power.

The Walmer crew responds to reports of a major incident involving a small boat in the English Channel, on arrival they are faced with mass casualties in freezing water.

RNLI crews race to the rescue of a female casualty with a spinal injury, a capsized dinghy with three people in the water, and seven missing kayakers.

On the north Somerset coast, the Minehead crew head out to rescue two walkers cut off by the tide, and in Dunbar a boy has fallen from some dangerous rocks.

RNLI crews respond to calls of a swimmer swept out to sea, a cargo ship about to run aground on a lighthouse, and a party boat that lost engine power.