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In Castletownbere, Donagh faces a baptism of fire on his first shout, as the crew rescue a fisherman who has suffered a suspected stroke.
On the Northumberland coast, a 999 call comes in from a distressed woman whose husband is drifting out to sea on a paddleboard; the Seahouses crew race out to locate him. In Moelfre, north Wales, when a crew member at the station spots a kayak capsizing, the lifeboat launches to pluck the fishermen from the water. Out in the English Channel, a French vessel makes a distress call, alerting the Torbay crew. And in Calshot, Hampshire, a sailing sloop has become stuck on one of the area’s notorious mudbanks - and is now taking on water.
New. 999: In Dungeness, the crew are called out to a small boat in the middle of the shipping lanes - and discover the casualty is the subject of a major manhunt.
In Queensferry, near Glasgow, an American visitor is caught out by the tide - and is barely conscious when the RNLI crew drag him out of the water.