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Know the risks:
The temperature of our waters can steal the air from your lungs and leave you helpless in seconds.
Around half the people who drown slip, trip or fall into the water. They don’t expect to get wet.
If you fall into water unexpectedly fight your instinct. Relax and float on your back. Float to live.
Latest Shouts in Porthcawl
Launch 33/25 –
8.45pm
Porthcawl RNLI’s volunteer crew were paged by HM Coastguard following a call from a sailing yacht which had suffered engine difficulties and was becalmed off Porthcawl near Fairy buoy. The charity’s Atlantic 85 Rose of the
Launch 32/25 –
10.22am
Porthcawl RNLI’s volunteer crew were tasked by HM Coastguard to a report of a kayaker in difficulty near Newton Point. The charity’s Atlantic 85 lifeboat Rose of the Shires was launched on service and made
Launch 31/25 –
7.40pm
Porthcawl RNLI’s volunteer crew were tasked by HM Coastguard to a report of multiple people cut off by the tide at Dunraven Bay. The charity's D Class lifeboat Hugo Missen was launched on service and made
Launch 30/25 –
8.00pm
Whilst Porthcawl RNLI’s volunteer crew were out on a training exercise onboard the charity’s D Class lifeboat Hugo Missen the crew spotted two people who were cut off by the tide to the western side