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Wales Online
National
Molly Dowrick

The everyday heroes who put their lives on the line around Wales’ coast to save strangers

Ceri Jeffreys had just sat down to eat at his favourite restaurant with his wife and his brother he hadn't seen for six months when his phone went off.

While most of us would have probably rolled our eyes, apologised, and put our device on silent Ceri's phone was not a standard phone – it was a pager. And whenever the pager goes off he has to stop whatever it is he is doing and prepare himself for a long night ahead.

That's because Ceri, from Port Talbot, is one of the inspiring individuals across Wales who put their lives on the line every single day by battling the elements and unpredictable currents and tides in order to rescue people of all ages who are in danger at sea.

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