play-icon ITV News Meridian reporter Chlöe Oliver looks back how the RNLI fared in 2020 Lifeboats and lifeguards around the coast saved almost one life every single day in 2020, latest figures have revealed. Rescue statistics from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) show a total of 349 lives saved by the charity's lifeboat crews and lifeguards last year. 140 32% 42 23 launches a day for rest of 2020 Volunteers are Poole Lifeboat Station launched 144 times last year, bringing 157 people back to safety, including saving three years. Of those launches, 64 were in darkness. Paul Glatzel, an RNLI volunteer, said that "packed beaches around the coast as restrictions lifted" meant "a hugely busy season for...Poole Lifeboat Station and for the RNLI as a whole."