The University of Plymouth has collaborated with the RNLI, Swim England and Plymouth Active Leisure to teach students how to stay safe in the water. The RNLI held a young adult water safety programme in May teaching students how to call for help correctly and how to use a throwline. That was followed up by...
The RNLI is reminding beachgoers to stay safe and to learn to “float to live” if they find themselves in trouble in open water. The charity said it was expecting beaches to be busy over the May half term – from Monday 26 to Friday 30 May. It said from Saturday, 66 beaches across Devon,...
Deaf students have been teaching some of Devon’s lifeguards sign language to help keep more people safe in and around the sea. The students from the Deaf Academy in Exmouth taught lifeguards phrases in British Sign Language (BSL) relating to water safety during Deaf Awareness Week. In return, the RNLI lifeguards shared safety tips with...
BBC The RNLI has reflected on the role it played during the war as the country marks 80 years since Victory in Europe, or VE Day The last lifeboat launch of World War Two in the UK happened in Devon, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has said. The RNLI has reflected on the role...
A man in shock with a head injury in the sea was helped by a surfer until an inshore lifeboat crew reached them off a north Devon beach on Friday. RNLI Appledore said it had responded to “a significant emergency” about 45m (50 yards) off the north end of Saunton Sands at about 16:15 BST...
Chloe Parkman BBC News, South West RNLI / Darren Blight Mr Gibson attended “hundreds of shouts” during his time with the RNLI A Plymouth-based volunteer is stepping down from the RNLI after 20 years. Richard Gibson joined Plymouth Lifeboat Station in 2004, aged 29, and said it “was one of the best decisions” he ever...
More than 80 lives were saved in 2024 by lifeboat crews and lifeguards in the South West. Data from the RNLI shows volunteer lifeboats were launched 1,475 times while lifeguards responded to 6,892 incidents, helping 9,178 people over the course of the year. A combined 82 lives were saved in the region by the two...
A Devon lifeboat was put into action while returning home after having maintenance carried out. Exmouth RNLI said its volunteers were on board the R&J Welburn, which had been in Poole, Dorset, for a few months for scheduled repairs, when it received a call from HM Coastguard to assist in a search for a missing...
