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The annual charity event is open to the local community and raises vital funds to help support the RNLI saving lives at sea.
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The next episode in the second series of BBC2’s documentary on the RNLI, which airs at 8pm on Tuesday 26th September, will include footage of the Yarmouth lifeboat in action and interviews with the Coxswain and members of the volunteer crew.
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Take note of the safety advice before attempting the St Helens and Bembridge Fort Walk this week. OnTheWight has tips from the RNLI.
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It's the unusually low tides in August that enables people to 'do the fort walk'. This year tides are not that low. RNLI say safety first - You could be up to your chest in the water.
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Cowes lifeboat crew were tasked to go to the aid of a grounded 16 foot speedboat last night whilst out on a training exercise.
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Sunday was a very busy day for the Yarmouth RNLI team - they were involved in many call-outs.
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The testing conditions in the Solent today proved too much for the lone occupant of a RIB near Bramble Bank, who needed rescuing after he was thrown into the wind-tossed water.
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Cowes RNLI lifeboat had an exceptionally busy Cowes Week on Sunday, dealing with four separate emergencies on a wind-swept Solent, each occasion with Neil Archer at the helm.
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Over the past five years, there have been 65 deaths at the south east coast during the summer months of June, July and August – more than at any other time of the year.
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A yacht that went hard aground on the Bramble Bank in the Solent yesterday received help from Cowes and Hamble lifeboat.
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Two similar calls for Yarmouth RNLI but in both instances, the stricken vessels managed to free themselves without assistance.
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During Gaffers the Hong Kong Star fouled its propeller on unmarked lobster pot gear and needed assistance from the RNLI.
