| UK. Coastguard & RNLI to star in TV series |
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| Tuesday, 03 January 2006 | |
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Coastguard news:Her Majesty's Coastguard and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) will feature in a third series of the successful BBC documentary 'Seaside Rescue' starting on Thursday, 5 January on BBC One at 8:00 pm. The returning series was filmed earlier this year at four locations; Weymouth, Lee on Solent, Perranporth and St Agnes. Portland Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre is featured along with the Wyke Regis and Portland Bill Coastguard Rescue Team and the work of the Coastguard search and rescue helicopter `India Juliet', which is based at Lee on Solent. Also featured are the Weymouth RNLI All weather and inshore lifeboats. In Cornwall, the cameras have followed the work of the RNLI lifeguards at Perranporth, along with St Agnes Coastguard Rescue Team. EPISODE ONE The RNLI lifeguards in Cornwall are joined by two new teams to the series - the crew of Coastguard helicopter India Juliet, and the RNLI lifeboat volunteers in Weymouth. 'India Juliet' is scrambled to a trawler with a seriously injured crewman on board. The inshore lifeboat in Weymouth rushes to rescue two boys clinging to rocks, and on the beach at Perranporth, the RNLI lifeguards have minutes to save a surfer found floating face down in the sea. EPISODE TWO The Weymouth RNLI lifeboat battles through heavy seas to a yacht with a very sick woman on board, Coastguard helicopter India Juliet is scrambled to a paraglider who's fallen out of the sky, and for the RNLI lifeguards, it's a race against time and tide to save a stranded porpoise. EPISODE THREE The Coastguard are alerted to a ship collision in the channel, 38 sailors lives are at risk and marine rescue resources are launched. On the beach in Cornwall RNLI lifeguards have to deal with a suspected spinal injury, while Coastguard helicopter India Juliet is scrambled to a yachtsman with severe chest pains. In Weymouth, the lifeboats search for the missing crew of a fishing boat that has sunk. EPISODE FOUR The RNLI lifeguards have their biggest incident of the summer, as 35 people are swept out to sea. Coastguard helicopter India Juliet is scrambled to a very sick woman on a ferry, who has to get to hospital quickly. The Weymouth inshore lifeboat races to a sinking speedboat. |
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