RNLI Service Statistics for 2009

Lifeboats (235 lifeboat stations)
Total
  
Launches
9,223
  
Lives saved
333
  
People landed
1,912
  
People brought in
5,990
  
People rescued (saved, landed and brought in)
8,235
  
     
Casualty Launches %

Sail pleasure craft

1,928           

 20.91

Power pleasure craft

2,223

 24.10

Manual pleasure craft

852

 9.24

Fishing vessels               

 581 6.30

Commercial/MOD          

 221 2.40

People in the water     

 1,527 16.56
People ashore 1,175 2.74

Unidentified/Distress           

 236 2.56

Aircraft                  

 49 0. 53

Miscellaneous              

 431 4.66

Total

 9,223 100.00
     
Services carried out in darkness 3,293 32,7
Services carried out in winds of Force 7+ 433  
2009 was the RNLI's busiest year so far in it's history with 9,223 launches.


Definitions

Life saved – where, if not for the actions of the lifeboat and/or its crew, a life would have been lost.

Person landed – where a lifeboat rescues a person who is at risk, but not in a life-threatening situation.

Person brought in – where a lifeboat rescues a person who is at very little risk, if at all, but if left would have probably been at risk later.
Lifeguards (142 lifeguard units) Total  
Incidents
13,591
  

Lives saved
123
  
Rescue 1,453  
Assistance 2,291  
Major first aid 776  
Minor first aid 8,888  
Missing/found person 1,592  
Near miss 547  
Search 114  
Other 173  

People aided
15,957
  


Definitions

Life saved – where, if a lifeguard had not intervened, life would have been lost.

Rescue – where a lifeguard responds to a person at risk and physically returns them to shore
or transfers them to another rescue craft.

Assistance – where a lifeguard aids a person in the sea who is at low risk but, if left, would be
at risk.

Major first aid – where a lifeguard treats a casualty who is at risk due to sickness or injury and
calls in external assistance.

Minor first aid – where a lifeguard treats a casualty due to sickness or injury who is at low or no
risk but requires treatment to ensure a risk does not develop.

Missing/found person – where a lifeguard assists in the location of children, separated from their
parents/guardians, or other persons who have been found or reported missing.

Near miss – where a person might have been injured by watercraft, powered or otherwise.

Search – an organised search, with other search and rescue units, for a missing person either at
sea or on land; includes body recovery.

People aided – a combination of the above eight categories.

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