Volunteer crew members at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) faced an unprecedented summer this year, with new data revealing a dramatic increase in the number of water users needing to be helped by the charity’s lifeboat crews compared to 2019.
Based on provisional incident reports from RNLI lifeboat stations around the UK and Ireland, there was a 64% increase in the number of recreational water users aided by the RNLI.