Ever wondered how many times the RNLI Lifeboats launch in a year?
As a (not so little) side project, I created this animation in order to visualise the sheer amount of times the charity's Lifeboats launch around the UK & Ireland each year.
This has been created using the Return of Service Data from 2017 that the RNLI Operations Research Unit department had compiled and is available in their 'Ops Stats Report 2017'.
Each Blue dot in the video represents the location of where a lifeboat launched too (not the location of the lifeboat station).
If a “picture tells a thousand words”, then I’m hoping this video can help us shout from the rooftops what the RNLI does in just one year.