Crash Landing

Whenever their pagers sound, the volunteers of the RNLI immediately find themselves under pressure.

In Port Isaac on the north coast of Cornwall, the crew race to the rescue of a woman with a spinal injury; she’s in a precarious position on a rock face, with the light fading. In Pembrokeshire, south west Wales, the Little & Broadhaven crew receive a mayday call about a capsized dinghy with three people in the water.

In Mudeford on the Dorset coast, a search for a missing kayaker quickly escalates when it emerges that there are six more kayaks unaccounted for. And in Eyemouth on the east coast of Scotland, the crew respond to an unusual rescue: a swan that’s become tangled in fishing line in the harbour.