Saving Lives At Sea

In Dungeness, the crew are called out to reports of a small boat in the shipping lanes; en route back to the station, they discover that the casualty is the subject of a manhunt.

In Porthcawl, a fisherman has been dragged lifeless out of the sea by bystanders; the lifeboat crew race to the beach and join the desperate attempts to resuscitate him. 

In Ireland, Castletownbere crew member Donagh faces a baptism of fire on his first ever shout, as the crew carry out a dramatic rescue of a fisherman who's suffered a suspected stroke.

In Queensferry, on the east coast of Scotland, an American visitor is caught out by the tide, and is barely conscious when the RNLI crew drag him out of the water. 

In Humber, the crew must work closely together to pull off the dangerous medivac of a fisherman with a spinal injury. 

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

In Mudeford, on the Dorset coast, a search for a missing kayaker quickly escalates when it emerges that there are six more kayaks unaccounted for.

On the north Somerset coast, the Minehead crew come close to disaster in a challenging rescue of two walkers cut off by the tide.

In Porthcawl, on the south-west coast of Wales, the crew receive a call about a swimmer who's been swept out to sea in a rip current - as his wife and son watch on helplessly.