{"id":1369594,"date":"2025-08-19T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwcstaging.co.uk\/?post_type=impact-story&amp;p=1369594"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:54:06","slug":"saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story","status":"publish","type":"impact-story","link":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving lives at sea: Robin Jenkins\u2019 story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\"><strong>Robin Jenkins (<em>UWC Atlantic<\/em>, 1990\u20131992)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\"><strong>Each year, over 230,000 people lose their lives to drowning \u2013 many of them young people.\u00a0It is one of the world\u2019s leading causes of unintentional death, yet it remains largely overlooked. To mark World Drowning Prevention Day on 25 July \u2013 a global call to raise awareness and prevent further loss of life \u2013 we are sharing the story of one UWC alum who has dedicated his life to tackling this crisis head-on.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-mission-begins\" style=\", sans-serif\">A mission begins<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">When Robin Jenkins (<em>UWC Atlantic<\/em>, 1990\u20131992) first stepped aboard a lifeboat as a student, he had no idea it would shape the rest of his life. Today, he is founder and CEO of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticpacific.org.uk\/\">Atlantic Pacific International Rescue<\/a>&nbsp;(AP), a non-profit tackling the global drowning crisis by delivering boats where none exist and training people to save lives at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-lifeboat-for-japan\" style=\", sans-serif\">A lifeboat for Japan<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwc.org\/_site\/data\/files\/images\/188807E542A3991BF295699901340FF4.jpg\" width=\"40%\">Robin\u2019s journey began in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami in Kamaishi, Japan. A local hotel owner told him how survivors heard cries from the water but had no way to help. \u201c<em>Where are the lifeboats<\/em>?\u201d he asked. The answer: \u201c<em>What\u2019s a lifeboat<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">That moment changed everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">Back at UWC Atlantic, Robin and a group of students designed and built a lifeboat and mobile lifeboat station. In 2016, they brought it to Kamaishi and trained local residents in rescue\u00a0 \u00a0 operations \u2013 laying the foundation for a community-led,\u00a0 ongoing lifesaving programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-training-a-new-generation\" style=\", sans-serif\">Training a new generation<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">AP\u2019s work has since expanded to the Mediterranean, where thousands of refugees have drowned in dangerous crossings. The organisation now trains volunteers in search and rescue, first aid and emergency response \u2013 equipping them with the skills to act when it matters most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">Education remains at the heart of AP\u2019s model. The summer school at UWC Atlantic gives young people hands-on training in real-world rescue. AP also runs the UK\u2019s only publicly accessible search and rescue programme, open to students, volunteers and professionals alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-looking-ahead\" style=\", sans-serif\">Looking ahead<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">From the&nbsp;<strong>Ocean Revival Project<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 which turns plastic waste into lifeboats \u2013 to plans for a global humanitarian training centre, AP continues to push boundaries. Though the team is mostly volunteer-led and often underfunded, the mission remains clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">\u201cOur vision is to create a world where no one drowns because they didn\u2019t have access to a lifeboat or trained rescuers,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">&#8211; Robin Jenkins&nbsp;(<em>UWC Atlantic<\/em>, 1990\u20131992)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">His story is a powerful reflection of UWC\u2019s mission in action \u2013 showing how young people, when trusted with responsibility, can lead change where it is most needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\"><strong>Learn more\u00a0<\/strong>about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticpacific.org.uk\/\">Atlantic Pacific International Rescue<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">Affiliated to UWC? You can\u00a0<strong>connect with Robin\u00a0<\/strong>via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uwchub.org\/user\/790430\">UWC Hub<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwcstaging.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Robin-Jenkins-in-scuba-diving-gear-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Robin Jenkins in scuba diving gear\" class=\"wp-image-1369596\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robin Jenkins in scuba diving gear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Jenkins (UWC Atlantic, 1990\u20131992) Each year, over 230,000 people lose their lives to drowning \u2013 many of them young people.\u00a0It is one of the world\u2019s leading causes of unintentional death, yet it remains largely overlooked. To mark World Drowning Prevention Day on 25 July \u2013 a global call to raise awareness and prevent further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1369595,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","country":[233],"story-category":[201,178,198],"class_list":["post-1369594","impact-story","type-impact-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-great-britain","story-category-climate-action-sustainability","story-category-education","story-category-uwc-atlantic"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saving lives at sea: Robin Jenkins\u2019 story - United World College<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saving lives at sea: Robin Jenkins\u2019 story\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robin Jenkins (UWC Atlantic, 1990\u20131992) Each year, over 230,000 people lose their lives to drowning \u2013 many of them young people.\u00a0It is one of the world\u2019s leading causes of unintentional death, yet it remains largely overlooked. To mark World Drowning Prevention Day on 25 July \u2013 a global call to raise awareness and prevent further [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"United World College\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutos\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/\",\"name\":\"Saving lives at sea: Robin Jenkins\u2019 story - United World College\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-19T08:54:06+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"es\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"es\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Saving lives at sea: Robin Jenkins\u2019 story\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/\",\"name\":\"United World College\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"es\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Saving lives at sea: Robin Jenkins\u2019 story - United World College","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"es_ES","og_type":"article","og_title":"Saving lives at sea: Robin Jenkins\u2019 story","og_description":"Robin Jenkins (UWC Atlantic, 1990\u20131992) Each year, over 230,000 people lose their lives to drowning \u2013 many of them young people.\u00a0It is one of the world\u2019s leading causes of unintentional death, yet it remains largely overlooked. To mark World Drowning Prevention Day on 25 July \u2013 a global call to raise awareness and prevent further [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/","og_site_name":"United World College","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Tiempo de lectura":"3 minutos"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/","url":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/","name":"Saving lives at sea: Robin Jenkins\u2019 story - United World College","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2025-08-19T08:54:06+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"es","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es","@id":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/saving-lives-at-sea-robin-jenkins-story\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Saving lives at sea: Robin Jenkins\u2019 story"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/","name":"United World College","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"es"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/impact-story\/1369594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/impact-story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/impact-story"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/impact-story\/1369594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=1369594"},{"taxonomy":"story-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story-category?post=1369594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}