That's quite sad. I'm amazed though, as the lifeboat station is just across the beach from where they are and my brother has been "picked up" twice by them despite not being in trouble in the first place - they often just come out to make sure you're ok. I wonder if it suggests the people who said they would phone didnt?
There you go believing the media again.
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Being locals they should know of the dangers, the second strongest tide in the world and dangerous mud flats.......
As tragic as it all is, there seems to be a severe lack of notice to the yearly tragedy of people getting into difficulties on this stretch of coast..
Most locals know better and it's the grockles that are normally at fault, i hear stories of utter neglect and stoopidity from my friends in the rescue services and i just hope that one day it'll all stop....
Misadventure on this one.......
Darwin alert. Think of it as evolution in action. Nature's way of culling the stupid. If locals want to have a skinful then go swimming in a truly dangerous stretch of water then they must accept the consequenses of their stupidity. No sympathy here. I'm sure I'll be accused of being callous and cynical: go right ahead, I don't really care.
I'm with you on the darwin thingy...Not caught up with me properly, he seems to be doing it in a slow and torturous way.......'stid!
Never found the tidal forces there particularly strong, certainly not within swimming/kiting distance, nothing like up at Ainsdale where you can bearly stand up at times. And believing the media? I have no choice at this point, and have little reason to suspect they'd be lying about it - what would be the reasoning for that?
[i]If locals want to have a skinful then go swimming in a truly dangerous stretch of water then they must accept the consequenses of their stupidity.[/i]
I've read that article twice and there is no mention of anyone having a skinful... Where did you get that bit from ?
Kev
I got that bit from the BBC West of England news, reporting from Weston. They were interviewing the girlfriends ofthe blokes who went missing.
The reporter said it on that video on the telegraph article linked up there.
Well she said 'after drinking alcohol' so not implying a skinful....
A pond could be dangerous for someone who's had a few, i've skinny dipped many times in open water and a self confessed not very strong swimmer..people are silly..with leads us back to the countzeros darwin alert.
By Darwin are we talking about the paddler that faked his own death or the Darwin of the evolutionary / awards nature?
Charles Darwin, author of 'The Origin of Species', who came up with the idea of 'survival of the fittest'.
Regarding the drinking, in today's Western Daily Press, Aimee Crisp, Dave Ellams' girlfriend, said the group had spent the afternoon drinking in Dave's flat when the two men decided to go for a swim. Coastguards estimate the men were carried half a mile out to sea in just over ten minutes.
While there isn't the undertow that you get on flatter beaches, at Birnbeck the tide is running past at a heck of a speed. People forget that this is still part of the Severn Estuary, and the river is fast running, coupled with the second highest tidal rise and fall in the world. It's bloody dangerous, and only a complete idiot would consider swimming off the rocks at Birnbeck when the tide is up.