Saving Lives At Sea

The volunteers of the RNLI race to save a surfer at the mercy of Storm Brendan, and a paddleboarder who's being swept out to sea - and away from his young children.

The volunteers of the RNLI battle to save a mother and her son who are caught in a rip current, and a man who has fallen over 100 feet from the top of a cliff.

The lifeboat volunteers pluck a fallen climber out of the sea in Wales, and in Scotland rescue a 170 ton fishing boat that's perilously close to the rocks, in gale force winds.

By the incoming spring tide, and is in danger of being submerged and swept out to sea. And on the most southerly point of the Sussex coast, in Selsey, the crew race to the rescue of a local diver with a suspected case of 'the bends'.

In Trearddur Bay, the RNLI crew battle through a force 10 gale and huge waves to try to rescue a surfer - watched by their worried families back on shore.

In St Agnes, the crew are involved in a race against time to rescue two young men who are reported to be struggling in the water near a notorious headland known as Tubby's Head.

The RNLI crew in Newhaven face a race against time as they respond to reports of a man who's suffered a seizure on board a tall ship.

A father and son on the crew are involved in a dramatic rescue of a yacht whose skipper has suffered a head injury.

Every day around the UK, an army of unpaid volunteers put their lives on the line to try and save strangers.

Saving Lives At Sea tells the extraordinary stories of the RNLI's volunteer army of men and women who put their lives on the line 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.