A brand new TV series called Saving Lives at Sea is to air soon on BBC 1, showing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s volunteer lifeboat crews in action.

Filmed over the course of several months at seven different lifeboat stations across the UK, the series portrays what life is like for those volunteers who must be ready at any time of day or night to help someone in trouble.

Stations included in the filming are Blackpool, Torbay, Tower, Oban, Newquay, Eastbourne and Brighton, whose volunteers have allowed specialist cameras and equipment onto their lifeboats and welcomed film-makers into their stations.

Saving Lives at Sea will be shown on BBC One later this spring.