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Coastal fatality figures* released today (9 June) by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) show the number of deaths at the UK coast reached a five-year high in 2015, with 168 people losing their lives.

Kyle of Lochalsh RNLI's volunteer crew were paged at 2:24pm Sunday 15 November, to assist a dive boat with three people on board, which was aground on rocks close to the entrance of Loch Kishorn.

Five French fishermen were rescued from their trawler as she started to list heavily on a falling tide in Dartmouth Harbour.

RNLI warning after crews called out more than 1,000 times across the North of England last year.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has launched a campaign to keep commercial fishermen safe, with figures showing 88 people were injured or killed in deck machinery incidents on fishing vessels in UK waters over the past five years.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has launched a campaign to keep commercial fishermen safe, with figures showing 88 people were injured or killed in deck machinery incidents on fishing vessels in UK waters over the past five years.

RNLI and coastguard in rescue of two capsized sailors.

The number of people killed off the UK coastline in 2015 is the highest since records were first collected in 2011, the RNLI says.

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