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Documentary following life on the English Channel, the busiest waterway in the world.

Documentary series following the lives of those that use the English Channel for pleasure, those that earn a living from it, and most importantly those who keep it safe.

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Channel Patrol: Series 1

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Therese Byrne

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Channel Patrol: Series 1: Episode 6

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Episode 6

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The crew of the Galatea are called out to a damaged light vessel.

Documentary following life on the English Channel. Off the coast of Weymouth, two rival skippers go head to head in an epic big fish competition.

In this episode, lighthouse engineers battle a hurricane. The Corporation of Trinity House is the organisation responsible for managing and maintaining over 500 lighthouses and buoys that mark out the shipping lanes and warn ships away from the channel's hazards. The team on Trinity House's flagship, the Galatea, are called out to a damaged light vessel which is marking a hazardous sandbank in the Dover Straits. But their mission to tow it into harbour for repair becomes increasingly perilous when Hurricane Bertha closes in on the channel. 

In Southampton's busy docks, 30 cranes work day and night to unload the 100 million tonnes of freight that come into the UK every year. But they are 400 feet tall and learning to drive them is not an easy job, as trainee dock worker Ryan soon finds out. 

And off the coast of Weymouth, two rival skippers go head to head in an epic big fish competition. Over three days every year, up to a hundred anglers compete to catch one of the channel's largest native fish - the mighty conger eel. With 50 years maritime experience, Paul Whittle has been top skipper five times  - but can rival Adrian Brown steal his crown?

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