Martin Woodward on Saving Lives at Sea

But there is just dozens and dozens, scores and scores, if not hundreds of rescues that you think about. We’d be here all week if we are going to talk about them all.

At the end of the day, it’s all about the team work as well. I mean the teamwork on the Lifeboat, you’ve got 30 odd people.

The Shore Crew, you can’t go out without someone knocking the pin out to launch you down the slipway and bring you back up at the end of the day so it’s important that there’s everyone on the boat basically.

I always said that the man who knocks out the pin is as important as the guy who drives the boat. It’s just a team effort like cogs in a wheel. You take one cog out and it doesn’t work.