Well done everyone.. must be rally scary first time out (or even all times even for the experienced crews in some situations) when you aren't sailors, but you are all awesome volunteers!! Damien & Doug really sorry you lost your boat, hope it was insured. Also hope that was a photo of the boat with the cat and that the cat wasn't still on board at the time...maybe get a canal boat, alot safer and calmer... to the lifeboat crews it might not be hanging from a helicopter but your rescues are not without danger too.... Glad young Ben learnt a lesson from the sea also..cheers from Western Australia
Was very impressed that even on a small RIB they carry an emergency pump, it just shows how well thought out the RNLI vessels are. I have also just read that the RNLI have their own ship building centre on the Isle Of White, where they build the Inshore Lifeboats.
Hi I love your work you guys are real good people in the world I just want to say the uk is so grateful and we can’t thank you enough for what you do keep up the good work and be safe ❤❤❤❤
Around the mid Eighties myself and my brother in law purchased a 16 foot Orkney long liner we had no experience whatsoever, but we decided to go sea fishing in Morecambe bay, after a few hours great fishing, we decided to head for Glasson dock, we had no idea where it was and had to ask a passing boat for directions, whilst steaming along on a very hot sunny day, the boat suddenly began to judder, wondering what it was we slowed down to a stop to check the prop, , one minute we were surrounded by water, the next we were sat in a sandy desert which went on for miles, we thought it would be at least 12 hours before the tide returned, so we decided to go for a walk along the sands, we were about 50 meters from the boat and i suddenly got a thought to go back and put out the anchor, then off we went my brother in law said lets go and have a look at that power station in the distance, we had been walking for about an hour and the power station was not getting any closer, so we decided it was too hot and set off back to this tiny white dot in the far distance, it was then that we noticed that our footprints had been submerged, at first we thought we must have been in a gulley, but then saw a plastic bottle go sailing bye, we realised the tide had turned and quickened the pace, we were still half to three quarters of a mile from the boat, as we neared the water was upto the top of the thighs, by the time we reached the boat it was waist deep and virtually impossible to keep your feet on the floor, if we had gone another 50 0r 60 yards we would not have made it back to the boat, i thank god everyday since for telling me to go and put the anchor out, that day was the day we began to realise , the sea needs respect.
disgusting that people are asked to donate !! when the same service brings in immigrants. !! they are not stuck at sea, they have the french navy to save them, and save our country from them !!
your comment just shows how friggin' small-minded you are... if those small vessels with migrants are in British waters, the French navy can't do jack-shit about it because they won't sail their boats into British waters unless invited by the British... it's up to the Coastguard & the RNLI to save ppl in danger in British waters... like the RNLI ppl said multiple times: the sea doesn't discriminate, neither does the RNLI... if everyone had the same small-minded idiocy as you, then no-one would save foreigners in their waters... maybe to make it better understandable to you: in case you get into difficulties in, lets say, Dutch waters, then, according to you the KNRM (Dutch RNLI equivalent) wouldn't be allowed to save you because you're not Dutch... I suggest you educate yourselves on proper seaman-ship and all that in entails, INCLUDING saving the lives of ppl that are in danger of losing their lives, no matter who they are or their background... if you want to stop migrants from undertaking such dangerous voyages, then you need to go to wherever they come from (their homelands!!! not France, they can't anything either) and start changing the idea they have that in the UK they'll get loads of money (and the origin of that idea lies in the fact that 'rich' westerners holiday in poorer countries splashing around lots of money without working... the ppl in those countries don't grasp the idea that those westerners work for that same money the rest of the year... basically, if you don't want migrants coming to the UK, then ppl from the UK need to stop going on holiday in Africa and stop splashing money around there... because that's where the origin of the problem lies...)
The irony is that the UK's Royal Armed Forces attacks and plunders sovereign nations whose citizens become migrants and end up being rescued by the RNLI.... What goes around, comes around...
I love watching these rescue shows and the genuine heartfelt caring these volunteers have for everyone they help...people need to remember that mother nature is absolute and unforgiving and knowing she provides us with much respect for her is utmost important...grateful for all who put their lives on the line for others.
This guy thought it was funny to get people out to rescue him and his partner ,they should be made to foot the bill ,a pair of clowns on the mountain they were lucky a storm didn't come in IDIOTS?. if they saw victims of accidents people who have taken falls "tryfan" is a serious mountain in winter an inexperienced nugget putting people in danger and he thinks it's funny 🤦
