Saving Lives at Sea — Series 7

In Newhaven, Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers hurried to the aid of two paragliders who had landed on a remote section of the shore. The tide was rising quickly, threatening to engulf them.

In Swanage, the lifeboat crew coordinated with the specialized coastguard rope team to assist an injured climber.

In Lyme Regis, the crew are engaged in a desperate search for three fishermen whose vessel has overturned in the River Axe. Elsewhere, the Kinsale crew offer assistance to a captain undertaking a transatlantic voyage.

Along the rugged north-west coast of Ireland, the crew of the RNLI station in Bundoran hurried to answer a call: a teenage girl had been caught in the currents and swept out to sea.

Along the south Wales coast, Tom, a crew member based in Penarth, finds himself unexpectedly deployed for the first time when a female paddleboarder is caught by the rising tide.

The familiar rhythm of a day at the Eastbourne lifeboat station, perched on the Sussex coast, is shattered in an instant by the sight of a vessel ablaze just beyond the harbour entrance.

Off the Dorset coast, in the seaside town of Swanage, the crew of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution hurried to the aid of a diver, his life precarious.

At Thurso, the northernmost mainland station in Scotland, the crew hurried to assist a rower battling for survival forty miles offshore.

A call for the RNLI crew in Kinghorn, a coastal town on Scotland's east side, regarding a distressed paddleboarder, holds a deeper significance than it initially suggests.

Off the southwest coast of Ireland, near Baltimore, the crew responded to a distress call: a lone sailor was adrift, clinging to the overturned hull of his catamaran more than seventy miles from shore.

