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Saving Lives at Sea is a television documentary series about the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, showing its rescues in British coastal waters and around Ireland. It was first broadcast by BBC Two on 13 July 2016. As of 2021, there were six annual seasons with over fifty episodes and production continuing.
Memorial in Douglas, Isle of Man to the lifeboat rescue of the sailors from the St George in 1830. The institution's committee set itself three objectives: [3] To award medals and/or cash to those involved in rescuing people from shipwrecks. To provide Captain Manby's line-throwing mortars to all coastguard and lifeboat stations.
A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crew and passengers. It can be hand pulled, sail powered or powered by an engine. It can be hand pulled, sail powered or powered by an engine.
In order to reflect this broader scope of modern maritime rescue activity, carried out by its member organisations, and to remove any ambiguity over the alternate meaning of the word "Lifeboat", the International Lifeboat Federation decided to change its name to International Maritime Rescue Federation in 2003, the process being completed in 2007.
A lifeboat crew member carried out resuscitation on a dog after it was pulled unresponsive from water. ... The rescue took place during the afternoon of 29 December.
Drones are becoming an important part of the emergency services. Police are using them to search for missing people, while fire departments test them as a tool to survey dangerous sites. Until now ...
The Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij, abbreviated: KNRM) is the voluntary organization in the Netherlands tasked with saving lives at sea. [2] For that purpose, it maintains 45 lifeboat stations along the Dutch coast of the North Sea and Wadden Sea and on the IJsselmeer. [2]
The Shannon launch and recovery system (SLARS) was developed to launch and recover the 18-tonne Shannon-class RNLI lifeboat. [3] [4] SLARS SC-T08 with the St Ives lifeboat Nora Stachura. The lifeboat is launched, and recovered, bow-first. The carriage, mounted on tracked wheels, is used to transport a lifeboat from boathouse to sea.