The biggest lifeboat charity of the UK has said that it will continue to save the migrants who get into trouble while trying. Cross the channel in small boatsSaying that its employees work “without decision or preference”.
Royal national lifeboat institution (RNLI) The defense of the small boat has faced criticism, but has insisted to “protect anyone in the sea in trouble”. The data released by the charity showed that the channel crossing incidents made only 1.2 percent of its total launch in 2024.
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Hundreds of protesters have gathered on five occasions in the last three weeks, wearing T-shirts and waving signs with slogans such as “our children sev our children”. Protests have feared widespread unrest, as seen in the last summer after the Southport stabbing, and also performed outside the hotel in Leeds, Greater Manchester and London.
But charity volunteers have urged people to remember the migrants who find themselves in dangerous situations in the sea “really need help”.
Dan Sinklair, who is a volunteer with Walmer Renley, said as a father, he has seen the scene “directly through my heart”.
He said, “One thing I would like to understand and feel that when we are assigned a small boat somewhere in the channel, these people really need our help,” he said. “They are in crisis. They are offshore in unnatural boats, taking water in all states and conditions. They can be frozen, their legs can be paralyzed, they cannot talk, they are in that position for age, they can be different. We can help save every person.
He recalled a special “terrible, terrible” situation, where a family was drowning on a boat in front of his eyes.
“There was a little girl on that boat, she looked at me directly in the eye and said: ‘I love you, thank you,” he said. “As a father, it was directly through my heart. When I went home, I knew that I had to talk to my daughter and give her a big huge and a big kiss. It has kept a lot of things in perspective that these people need our help.”
RNLI rescued 1,371 people from the incidents involving small boats crossing the channel in 2024, Charity said, the total number of people recorded to cross the channel in short boats last year is increasing by 3.7 percent of the total number of people.
It comes ahead of return Saving life in the sea This week on BBC two.
Simon Linga, head of RNLI of Lifeboats, said: “Our volunteer lifeboat crew are doing extraordinary things, often imaginative in the most challenging circumstances and we are proud of their constant commitment to save life in the sea.
“Covers’ testimony and rescue footage leads to our volunteer Lifeboat Crew, when they launch to assist people crossing the channel at the request of HM Coastguard. They often face highly challenging rescue scenario, including a large number of distressed people in the water.
“We are incredibly proud of our crew, who continue to respond selflessly at their pages, day or night, just to help others. We know that anyone can drown, but no one should be done and every time our crew is requested to launch by HM Costguard, then they need to help someone’s father, son or daughter.
“We are a voluntary life serving rescue service, and will survive anyone in the sea, as RNLI has been doing without decisions or preference for more than 200 years.”
Saving life in the sea BBC two at 8 pm on Thursday at 8 pm.