Saving Lives at Sea

Saving Lives at Sea
TV Show · Adventure · Reality

Follows the ordinary men and women who volunteer with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), risking their lives every day to save others who are in danger. With bases across Britain the RNLI are prepared to attend rescue calls around the clock and in any weather condition. Operating for more than 150 years, the organisation has saved over 140,000 people from life-threatening situations out at sea. During the winter months the elements become treacherous posing more risks to people venturing in the harsh waters, in turn increasing the number of challenging rescue missions for the brave volunteers.

2016 · 58m
Starring Steven Mackintosh
Director Phil Broadhurst, Luke Proctor

Season 2

  • EPISODE 1
    Episode 1
    In the first episode, a retired nursery teacher gets herself into danger after attempting to rescue her two dogs after they became cut off by the rising tide. In Wales, one volunteer crew member is washed off a cliff into the sea trying to rescue a concussed spear fisherman, and in Blackpool a rescue in a force seven gale goes badly wrong putting all three crew members' lives in jeopardy.
    58 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Episode 2
    The volunteers of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution staff more than 230 stations covering even the most far-flung areas of Britain's coastline but the busiest station by far is actually miles from the sea, on the River Thames in Central London.
    58 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Episode 3
    In Cornwall, the newest recruit 18-year-old Shaunna is following in the family tradition and her grandfather's footsteps. After a successful first rescue of a teenage holidaymaker, she has hopes to one day become Newquay's first helmswoman.
    58 min
  • EPISODE 4
    Episode 4
    The army of unpaid volunteers has to contend with everything from overly ambitious novice sailors caught in a storm to a little girl who has become trapped in the rocks below the high-water mark. The dangers of the water are further put into perspective when a father gets himself into serious difficulties after swimming out to try and rescue his young son.
    58 min
  • EPISODE 1
    Episode 1
    On the south coast of Devon, the crew of Salcombe lifeboat station are called to two of the highest level of emergencies at sea: a mayday call to a fisherman pulled to the bottom of the sea ensnared in his own fishing gear, and a devastating fire on a boat fifteen miles out in the channel. Over two hundred miles away in the waters off Anglesey, as they go to the rescue of a father and his 13 year old son missing at sea, the crew of Moelfre station uncover a story of survival and heroism.
    59 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Episode 2
    From first timers at sea to salty old skippers, the wrong conditions can catch anyone off their guard leaving them in need of rescuing. On the east coast of Ireland, the crew of Courtown's inshore lifeboat face one of their most challenging shouts ever, in deep water they must keep a teenage girl with suspected spinal injuries immobile and afloat for forty minutes knowing any movement could leave her paralysed for life.
    59 min

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Cast & Crew

  • Steven Mackintosh
    Narrator
  • P‌B
    Phil Broadhurst
    Director
  • L‌P
    Luke Proctor
    Director
  • S‌S
    Sarah Spencer
    Producer
  • C‌G
    Corinna Gallop
    Producer
  • D‌M
    David Mackay
    Producer
  • S‌H
    Sam Hooper
    Music

About

Saving Lives at Sea

Adventure

Follows the ordinary men and women who volunteer with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), risking their lives every day to save others who are in danger. With bases across Britain the RNLI are prepared to attend rescue calls around the clock and in any weather condition. Operating for more than 150 years, the organisation has saved over 140,000 people from life-threatening situations out at sea. During the winter months the elements become treacherous posing more risks to people venturing in the harsh waters, in turn increasing the number of challenging rescue missions for the brave volunteers.

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Released
2016
Rated
15

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Africa, Middle East, and India

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Botswana
  • Cape Verde
  • Egypt
  • Eswatini
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • India
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger (English)
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uganda
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Zimbabwe

Asia Pacific

  • Australia
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Cambodia
  • Fiji
  • 香港
  • Indonesia (English)
  • 日本
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • 澳門
  • Malaysia (English)
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Mongolia
  • New Zealand
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • 대한민국
  • 台灣
  • Thailand
  • Turkmenistan
  • Vietnam

Europe

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  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Cyprus
  • Czechia
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (Français)
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  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg (English)
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  • Moldova, Republic Of
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  • Slovakia
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  • Türkiye (English)
  • Ukraine
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Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Anguilla
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina (Español)
  • Bahamas
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Bolivia (Español)
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  • Virgin Islands, British
  • Cayman Islands
  • Chile (Español)
  • Colombia (Español)
  • Costa Rica (Español)
  • Dominica
  • República Dominicana
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  • El Salvador (Español)
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  • Guatemala (Español)
  • Honduras (Español)
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