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Out here on the coast we dial 999 and are asked by dispatch - 'Fire, Police, Ambulance or Coastguard'? The CG then alerts RNLI, lifeboat service, and/or RAF rescue helicopters. Its a sort of cascade system and works well. Lifeboats can also be summoned direct by 'MayDay' signal or maroon rockets fired from on board, two rockets indicate souls at risk. Nothing is this world would induce me to take to the lifeboat, as crew that is. The waters here are as treacherous as anywhere on earth.
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