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RNLI crew intimidation

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shoot999:
Not just RNLI, all mariners inc civvy, RN and BF. The UN convention on the Law of the Sea places an obligation on all mariners and governments to assist  anyone in danger or distress upon the seas. No mariner would be in any doubt that a flimsy dingy with untrained crew, non existent safety and navigation equipment and overloaded with civilians was anything but a  distress situation. And in my 40 plus years at sea I've never come across anyone who would ignore such a situation.

stuartwaters:
I agree completely. Whatever we may think of these so-called asylum seekers and the unscrupulous scumbags who set them off across the Channel in flimsy rubber dinghies, the RNLI crews are only doing what any sailor would do on coming across those in peril on the sea.


I have been rescued by the RNLI and they are the only charity I give my hard-earned to.

MartinR:
I came across this story a week or so back.  Scroll down to the image about halfway down with the legend "Listen: an RNLI volunteer describes ...".

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/it-s-impossible-to-tell-saints-from-sinners-when-a-dingy-is-275509/
RNLI crews have been subject to abuse and late night phone calls for rescuing "asylum seekers" from the Channel.  Now whatever you may think about the "asylum seekers" and the people traffickers behind them, there is absolutely no excuse for abusing volunteers who turn out at a moments notice, day or night, to save life at sea.

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