Mike Potts / Lifeboat on Akademik Shokalskiy ship, ship heading eastwards through sea ice towards Cape Adare, East Antarctica. January 2018.

Mike Read / Royal National Lifeboat Institution College, Holes Bay, Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, UK, September 2018

Ashley Cooper / Happisburgh on the Norfolk Coast. This section of coast is the fastest eroding point in the UK and speeding up to to global warming induced sea level rise and increased stormy weather. August 2006

Gary K. Smith / Whitby life boat and lifeboat station. North Yorkshire, England, UK. June.

Gary K. Smith / Whitby life boat and lifeboat station, North Yorkshire, England, UK. June.

Alan Williams / Hilbre Island - view of north end with sandstone cliffs and shore at low tide with the old lifeboat station and bird watching hide above. Brick reinforcement of base of cliffs also visible, River Dee...

Ernie Janes / Aerial view of lifeboat station, beach huts and caravan park at Wells-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK, September 2009.

Ernie Janes / Aerial view of Holkham caravan park, Pinewoods and Wells Beach and lifeboat station, Norfolk, England, UK, February 2009.

Ernie Janes / View looking towards Blakeney Point lifeboat station, with Morston village church in the foreground, Norfolk, England, UK, November.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Lifeboat on the Antarctic cruise liner 'MV Ushuaia' Antarctica

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Antarctic peninsula seen from aboard an Antarctic cruise liner 'MV Ushuaia' Antarctica lifeboat, Antarctica

Sue Daly / Lifeboat davits on the wreck of HMNZS Canterbury, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, February 2013