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Series 11: 8. Paddleboard 999
On the Northumberland coast, a 999 call comes in from a distressed woman whose husband is drifting out to sea on a paddleboard; the Seahouses crew race out to locate him.\n\nIn Moelfre, north Wales, when a crew member at the station spots a kayak capsizing, the lifeboat launches to pluck the fishermen from the water.\n\nOut in the English Channel, a French vessel makes a distress call, alerting the Torbay crew.\n\nAnd in Calshot, Hampshire, a sailing sloop has become stuck on one of the area’s notorious mudbanks - and is now taking on water.
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