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Know the risks:
The temperature of our waters can steal the air from your lungs and leave you helpless in seconds.
Around half the people who drown slip, trip or fall into the water. They don’t expect to get wet.
If you fall into water unexpectedly fight your instinct. Relax and float on your back. Float to live.
Latest Shouts in Porthcawl
Launch 7 & 8/25 – 📟 1.14am
Porthcawl RNLI’s volunteer crew were tasked by HM Coastguard in the early hours following a request for assistance from South Wales Police. They had concern that 4 teenagers may have entered the water at Newton
Launch 6/25 – 📟 2.48pm
Porthcawl RNLI’s volunteer crew were tasked by HM Coastguard following multiple 999 calls reporting two women in difficulties in the Ogmore river. The two, a mother and daughter had been caught by the rising tide
Launch 5/25 – 📟 9.44am
Porthcawl RNLI’s volunteer crew were tasked by HM Coastguard to investigate a fishing boat which had reported engine failure off Irongate Point. The charity's Atlantic 85 Rose of the Shires was launched on service and
Launch 3 & 4/25 – 📟 2.42pm
Porthcawl RNLI's volunteer crew were tasked by HM Coastguard to assist a fisherman who had become cut off by the tide on rocks at Ogmore By Sea. The fisherman was rescued and taken onboard the