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RNLI Blackpool volunteer Pat Abram on the 200 Voices podcast
200 Voices an RNLI podcast

‘I want them to be remembered’

Episode 133 - Courage and Loss: Pat Abram

RNLI volunteer Pat Abram knows only too well the devastating power of the sea.

Pat has a lifelong awareness of the dangers of the sea. His father drowned at sea before Pat was born, and on the 5 January 1983, while working as a police officer in Blackpool, Pat and three colleagues went to the rescue of a man struggling in the sea – a courageous act that ended in tragedy.

Four lives were lost, leaving the local community devastated, and every year those people are remembered in a memorial service in the town. Pat shares his deeply moving story of the rescue attempt – during which he too almost lost his life – and how the incident influenced his decision to volunteer at RNLI Blackpool Lifeboat Station in the shop and as Deputy Launching Authority.

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