Writer: Lynda La Plante (first two episodes and storylines for the series)

A Bloom Street Productions for the BBC

Producer: Ruth Kenley-Letts

The men of Penrhys regularly risk their lives on the seas off the South Welsh coast. On call they deal with a drowned mystery diver, a girl who drives over a cliff, and a drug-smuggling aristocrat; on shore they face the dramas of life in a coastal village, where the lifeboat is under threat.