KIDS KEEP SEA PERILS AT BAY!
More than 150 school children learnt what it takes to be an RNLI lifeguard at a sports festival on Tregonhawke beach. Year six pupils (aged 10 and 11) from Carbeile, Antony, Millbrook and Downderry...
View ArticleOUT WITH THE OLD – AND OUT WITH THE NEW
Barely had the David Robinson made her final passage from the Lizard to her new home in Poole than the new Lizard lifeboat ‘Rose’ was out saving lives at sea. A lost lone sailor called out the...
View ArticleFASTNET DRAMA OFF LANDS END
A second Fastnet yacht has had a close call as the famous race’s competitors head to the finish line in Plymouth. The Inseyandra, which has a crew of ten, lost its mast off Lands End earlier today...
View ArticleCHOCS AWAY!
St Ives lifeboat crew are clean out of chocolate after the big softies handed over their entire supply to a little lad they rescued. The big softies gave up their chocs on an emergency call-out in...
View ArticleBLOCK LOBSTER
by RNLI staff The Lizard lifeboat set a stranded lone sailor on his way after his 32ft trimaram got its propeller tangled in a lobster pot. The ‘Treskille’ was on passage from Falmouth to Penzance...
View ArticleWAVE ON
Throwing shapes makes light work – but the fun had to end when the engine cut out Lizard lifeboat has completed its first rescue op – saving a boat load of fun’lovin Cornish fishermen whose engine cut...
View ArticleTHE TAMING OF THE CRIBBAR
These are just a few of the fantastic pictures taken of Ben surfing the Cribbar by Paddle Out Surf , Cornwall’s top daily surf report and news website – click through to check out more! Hundreds of...
View ArticleA SPIRITED EFFORT
by Susan Norfolk Spirit of Padstow was called out on Wednesday at 1 pm to assist Coastguard team in a coastal search for a missing man. The missing man was last seen at 10.30 am. The search centred on...
View ArticleSOS!
by Anna Classon Lifeboat crews across Cornwall will be pedalling, polishing and even preparing tea to raise cash for new lifejackets next month. RNLI Stations in the Duchy are due a complete...
View ArticleIT’S A ROLL OVER WEEK
by Emma Haines RNLI lifeguards and volunteer lifeboat crew worked together to rescue two kayakers in difficulty off Trevaunance Cove on Monday afternoon. The kayakers had capsized several times in the...
View ArticleGET SET FOR THE BIG DIP
by Tamsin Thomas The RNLI’s annual Castle to Castle swim across the River Fal is returning for its fifth year on Sunday 2 June, 2013 and the lifesaving charity is now welcoming entries into this ever...
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FEEDING THE NINE BILLION
Biologist Tom Webb comments on the controversial Fish Fight Series 3. What with Brian Cox spending an hour explaining the importance of body size in ecological systems, and then prime time marine...
View ArticleDRAWING A LINE IN THE ‘FISH FIGHT’
from Laurence Hartwell Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fish Fight campaign, which is urging people to march on Parliament and demand the implementation of 127 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in UK coastal...
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IS IT LOCAL?
This month sees a new campaign to get local folk behind the ever-threatened fishing industry. ‘Support Our Fishing Community’ – the real fish fight – is top fishing blogger Laurence Hartwell ‘s virtual...
View ArticleGOODBYE GUY
A Breton businessman who helped save thousands of seafarers lives passed away today (April 3rd) at the age of 76. Guy Cotten‘s life was a classic rags to riches story. The eldest son of seven children,...
View ArticleYOU CAN BRETON IT
by Chris and Lizzie Morgan The yachtsmen behind one of Europe’s most prestigous races have chosen to sail over to visit their Cornish cousins this year. Sailtica, the 500 mile contest that starts out...
View ArticleBARNEY TROUBLE
by Amy Caldwell St Ives volunteer RNLI lifeboat crew launched the station’s all weather Mersey class lifeboat The Princess Royal to reports of a life raft drifting a mile off Godrevy light house on...
View ArticleSALE AWAY
A spectacular sailing event that made a mint for the Cornish economy the last time it was held in the 80s is cruising back to our waters. The Tall Ships Regatta 2014 hits Falmouth on Thursday August...
View ArticleWE NEED A HERO
by Tamsin Thomas A local hero who dived into the freezing water of the Fal River to try and save the life of a woman trapped underwater took on a well-deserved and much happier community role at the...
View ArticleTHURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING
by Tamsin Thomas To prove that RNLI volunteers are on call 24 hours a day the crew at Penlee lifeboat station have launched afternoon, evening and overnight recently. In a busy few days for the team,...
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