RNLI says more than 25 million people visited a lifeguarded beach in UK and Channel Islands in 2022
They have passed fitness, strength and capability tests, made sure their casualty care skills are up to scratch and completed online assessments ranging from sun safety to data protection.
As the wind and waves battered the beach, a group of lifeguards at Boscombe in Dorset ran through their final chilly drills on the water before what the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) believes will be its busiest summer ever.
