Martin Woodward on Saving Lives at Sea

The normal quota on the old boats was eight and then that changed a little bit to I think it was down to seven, but sometimes you’d have as many as ten, depending on the task really.

If you were going to go out in the middle of the Channel in a storm, then you wouldn’t want too many people on board because you know it’s quite confined and there’s no need to have lots of pairs of eyes.

It depends on the task. If you out looking for someone in the water, then you’d probably have a lot more pairs of eyes of people who were available to go, so sometimes you might go out with five or six people and you might go out with eight or nine or even ten if you wanted a lot of people looking out.