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In Pictures: Surf, swimmers and sunsets – the year’s best sea shots

From wintry rescues, through a summer reprieve from lockdown, to a festive charity dip.

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Photographers from the PA news agency have captured a range of images this year showing our enduring relationship with the sea, from storm-lashed piers and dangerous rescue missions, to fun at the beach and a festive dip.

Spring weather Apr 23rd 2020
A sun halo appears over the sea off Northumberland (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Lewis Pugh Antarctic swim
Briton Lewis Pugh became the first person to swim under an Antarctic ice sheet (Lewis Pugh/PA)
Summer weather Aug 18th 2020
A rainbow over Blyth Offshore Wind Farm (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Plane crash near Calshot Spit
The wreckage of a light plane washed up on the beach near Calshot Spit, Southampton, in May. Two people were rescued (Andrew Matthews/PA)
Summer weather June 20th 2020
People in the sea at Tynemouth as the sun rises on the summer solstice (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Joint Navy drug seizure
Royal Marines from 539 Raiding Squadron deploy to intercept a boat in the Caribbean Sea during an operation against drug smugglers (LPhot Oates/Royal Navy/PA)
Playmobil boat travels
Brothers Ollie and Harry Ferguson, from Aberdeenshire, made headlines when their toy ship travelled more than 3,700 miles to reach the Caribbean after it was launched around 100 miles off the coast of Mauritania in West Africa in 2017 (MacNeill Ferguson/PA)
Winter weather Jan 29th 2020
The Ocean Dee ship on the horizon in the North Sea off Whitley Bay (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Festive charity dip
A festive fancy dress charity dip organised by Age UK in the sea at Leasowe on the Wirral (Peter Byrne/PA)
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