Summary
During Season 6, volunteers race to save a surfer at the mercy of a storm, lifeguards battle to rescue a mother and her son caught in a rip current, and a man suffers a seizure out at sea.
Saving Lives at Sea
- 2023
- Season 6
- 10 episodes
- Documentary and factual
- News and current affairs
Episode 8: Saving Lives at Sea
Summary
On Ireland's south-east coast, the three RNLI crews at Dunmore East, Kilmore Quay and Rosslare battle to save a cargo ship that has lost all power and is drifting towards rocks. In Hoylake, on the Wirral, a vast multi-agency effort is required to rescue a mother and daughter who have got stuck in the mud and, 65 miles to the west, in the coastal village of Porthdinllaen, the crew respond to a mayday call from a yacht five miles out in the Irish Sea that is requesting an immediate medical evacuation
Review
Be warned: almost nothing this week will stretch your nerves tighter than this edition of the series following lifeboat crews in action. You might need a lie down afterwards…
Hovercrafts pull walkers out of coastal mudslides, stroke victims are evacuated from yachts at night and crewmen jump across to tiny sailboats in rolling waves. And that’s all after a lifeboat is confronted with a 100m cargo ship (full of diesel) drifting in a gale towards the rocks of Hook Head in southern Ireland. “It’s known as the Graveyard of a Thousand Ships,” drawls one of the deadpan crew. “You don’t get a reputation like that lightly.”
The rescue that follows, with the ship edging ever closer to the rocks, is as tense as TV gets.
Details
- Released on
- 2021-10-12
- Languages
- English
- Formats
- Colour
Credits
Cast
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Self - Narrator | Steven Mackintosh |
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Episode 8
Saving Lives at Sea
Summary
On Ireland's south-east coast, the three RNLI crews at Dunmore East, Kilmore Quay and Rosslare battle to save a cargo ship that has lost all power and is drifting towards rocks. In Hoylake, on the Wirral, a vast multi-agency effort is required to rescue a mother and daughter who have got stuck in the mud and, 65 miles to the west, in the coastal village of Porthdinllaen, the crew respond to a mayday call from a yacht five miles out in the Irish Sea that is requesting an immediate medical evacuationReview
Be warned: almost nothing this week will stretch your nerves tighter than this edition of the series following lifeboat crews in action. You might need a lie down afterwards…
Hovercrafts pull walkers out of coastal mudslides, stroke victims are evacuated from yachts at night and crewmen jump across to tiny sailboats in rolling waves. And that’s all after a lifeboat is confronted with a 100m cargo ship (full of diesel) drifting in a gale towards the rocks of Hook Head in southern Ireland. “It’s known as the Graveyard of a Thousand Ships,” drawls one of the deadpan crew. “You don’t get a reputation like that lightly.”
The rescue that follows, with the ship edging ever closer to the rocks, is as tense as TV gets.
Details
- Released on
- 2021-10-12
- Languages
- English
- Formats
- Colour
Credits
Cast
role name Self - Narrator Steven Mackintosh
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