Michael Mosley…

This isn’t looking good is it?  Goes out for a walk and vanishes.   Searches have now been going on for over 24hrs.

I genuinely hope he’s ok, one of TV’s nicer and well respected scientist/presenters.

Yeah, its all a bit mad. Hope he’s OK.

Yes very worrying.

its all a bit mad

Yeah, folk go missing in the hills often enough (especially around here) and it’s often falls or slips on innocuous terrain that is the culprit. There was a case of a man and his 12 year old son only last week..

I’m sure he’ll be found. Might not be the outcome that everyone hopes for tho.

Over the years I’ve listened to a lot of his radio stuff and like his approach to the advice he gives.

Hoping for the best but fearing the worst especially with the heat they are having at the moment

Didn’t he suffer from Mental Health issues ?

It’s very strange that his phone was at their accommodation. I can’t imagine it’s a place that’s got a lot of CCTV so trying to work out where he might be must be a nightmare. Been a fan of him for years so really hoping he’s found safe and well

I wish there was a chance that he is okay but that unfortunately is extraordinarily unlikely.

I can imagine a situation in which he took unnecessary risks to see what the effects would be on his body, eg a walk at 1.30pm during a heatwave.

He long believed in the benefits of very cold water :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001t9jt

Sometimes things went wrong

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-mail-on-sunday/20190818/282741998445189

It’s worth also remembering that this is a man who swallowed a tape worm to see the effects on his body.

A remarkable man who has helped a lot of people understand more about health and science.

It’s very strange that his phone was at their accommodation.

That might just be because he spends his life on it when working and was on holiday. Certainly hope so. I’m another who likes his approach, a nice change from the vast majority of the “health advocates” who mostly seem to be selling stuff and vastly oversimplifying.

It’s very strange that his phone was at their accommodation

I thought he forgot it on the beach, no?

Over 48 hours missing during the summer, with temps hitting approx 40C on Wednesday when he vanished, odds of a positive outcome are very slim.

Carpe diem, things can happen, even when on holiday!

And take your mobile out with you instead of leaving it in the holiday home unless really impractical, even if you put it on DND.

Hope he’s OK.

Feel sorry for his family, it must be awful. Hope he’s OK.

Hoping against all the odds he is safe and found soon. Seems like a genuinely nice fella.

Yeh very worrying, I’ve followed his various books, programs and podcasts over the years , seems a genuinely nice bloke with some down to earth and interesting advice.

I thought he forgot it on the beach, no?

BBC news article says “His phone was found where he was staying with his wife”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl552xdq79do

My wife thinks he’s patronising in his presentation, but I disagree. He’s dispensed some very sensible advice based on lived experience, and isn’t afraid to try stuff to see what the effect actually is (as per the tapeworm reference above)

Whatever is happening on the island of Symi, I hope it’s innocuous, but currently fear it may not be 🥺

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl552xdq79do

Divers looking for him now as well as helicopter and drones.

Says his wife was on the beach where he started his walk to the centre of the island.  His phone was found at their accommodation.

I like his podcasts he s covered some fab subjects.  The path he took runs alongside the sea, clear and only 20 mins apparently.  It was hot though, 40 degrees.  Must be awful for his family.

Weirdly the animal rescue I volunteer at was due for a visit from the production team of his podcast this Saturday to discuss the benefits of volunteering. I doubt that’ll happen now. 🙁

CCTV has picked him up at a local shop not long after he left his wife so doesn’t look like he’s gone walkabout in the hills.

CCTV has picked him up at a local shop not long after he left his wife so doesn’t look like he’s gone walkabout in the hills.

Sadly that’s the shops in the village near the beach he started at. So he negotiated the path along the water’s edge. But he was due to walk inland from there towards their villa.

It doesn’t look good sadly. Assuming everything is possible at this stage including suspicious circumstances.

His 800 cal diet got me back on the straight and narrow. His R4 programs I found so so. They assumed zero prior knowledge which is probably a good thing but as someone above said of their wife’s opinion – that could make him a little condescending sounding at times – though I imagine that was never the intent.

New CCTV footage from a house shows him heading to a path into the hills at 2pm.

Apparently the route is hard to follow, but the island’s not that big, maybe 5 miles across, so being an island even if you got lost you just pick a  direction and stick to it and end up at the coast before too long, certainly well within the few days, regardless of terrain.

Search is now in it’s forth day. Sadly I can’t see us hearing from him again.

but the island’s not that big, maybe 5 miles across, so being an island even if you got lost you just pick a  direction and stick to it and end up at the coast before too long, certainly well within the few days, regardless of terrain.

I take it you’ve never been that lost with no phone and no compass.  Picking a direction and sticking to it across rough ground is actually quite hard.  If you have the sun, or perhaps the stars you might manage it,  but the sun is his biggest threat there and heat stroke adds confusion.  He was an intelligent person so if he’s still been able to think logically he’d have sought shade.  The problem then is anywhere shaded will be harder to search from the air.

One of the pix I’ve seen shows him using an umbrella for shade, hopefully he still had it with him.

island’s not that big, maybe 5 miles across

I used to live on an island that’s 6×7 miles. It’s still a lot of area and it would absolutely be possible to get lost very easily and not be anyone to find the coast.

Yes he is an intelligent person, which is why I’m suggesting that as we’re into the forth day he is not simple lost.  Maybe I’m give him more credit than is due?  It would great of that is the case.

There was a case of a man and his 12 year old son only last week..

Yes, that was a friend of mine from school and was a tough thing to find out. Glen Coe MRT (and other teams) went out for him but, sadly, did not find him in time. If you are part of that team, thank you. I know you would have done everything you could.

The CCTV footage of him walking through the village – at the end of it the camera appears to pan and zoom in on him. That seems a bit odd for a CCTV camera which is presumably static? It really doesn’t look like some sort of edit

I carry a Spot – GPS tracker come plb. Every time the annual bill comes I think twice about the renewal (or at least downgrading to a plan where I activate it only for big/remote trips). Stories like this and the poor father and son tragedy up here (sorry to hear you knew him Willard) give me resolve to keep on paying for it. But would I have had it on me for a bimble home from the beach like Mosley was on? Very unlikely.

I do hope they find him soon. Got to say I was surprised the focus was not on the 2nd part of his journey right from the start.

Yet to try it myself, but can even just use some sort of “friends and family” tracking thing on Google Maps, where you obviously have to approve the “stalker.” There will be places where your mobile won’t have a signal, but well worth having. Free Strava mobile map also has activity tracking for people you approve.

I do hope they find him soon. Got to say I was surprised the focus was not on the 2nd part of his journey right from the start.

depends on what was known of his intentions – the ‘second part of his journey’ is only really inferred by the direction he appears to be heading in the latest released CCTV. It was only the CCTV, once it was available,  that confirms he got from the beach to the village (ior that someone dressed like him was), until that point the only firm sighting was him leaving the beach so it makes sense to start looking from the point where he was last seen.

It can only really be speculated where he went from that point  – you can’t even really be certain he left the village, just that he was walking in the direction of the edge of the village in the last known footage

The CCTV footage of him walking through the village – at the end of it the camera appears to pan and zoom in on him. That seems a bit odd for a CCTV camera which is presumably static? It really doesn’t look like some sort of edit

Thats someone filming the CCTV screen with their phone

depends on what was known of his intentions – the ‘second part of his journey’ is only really inferred by the direction he appears to be heading in the latest released CCTV. It was only the CCTV, once it was available,  that confirms he got from the beach to the village (ior that someone dressed like him was), until that point the only firm sighting was him leaving the beach so it makes sense to start looking from the point where he was last seen.

It can only really be speculated where he went from that point  – you can’t even really be certain he left the village, just that he was walking in the direction of the edge of the village in the last known footage

This could escalate into an unhelpful and unseemly he said she said about a very sad live search so I’ll leave it after this, but….right from the first report it was stated that his wife said he left the beach with the specific intention to walk back to their villa – which was some distance inland of the village near the beach. So looking at the terrain the first place I’d have been looking is the rough ground between the village and the villa with much higher risk of accident and error. They might well have done of course – these media reports are always a case blurred simplified versions of the truth.

Thats someone filming the CCTV screen with their phone

Ah, right

It’s really difficult looking for someone when there are no clues, I ve been out a few times here in Spain when someone walking has gone missing.  I know all the local tracks as walk them regularly, however, missing person could be off piste, in a well sheltering, may not even be in the local area.  Add in snake bites, wild dog attacks, fall down well looking for water, not wanting to be found, something more sinister.  His family must be distraught.

Not saying anything about the ongoing search.

the island’s not that big, maybe 5 miles across, so being an island even if you got lost

I used to live near some densely forested national park. A volunteer went out to do some bushcare – think trail building for people that love plants. She disappeared and every possible technique and search team was deployed to find her for a prolonged period. 4 years later her remains were found 150m away from her last known spot where she was working. The point is that it’s possible to get lost in a tiny area.

body found (bbc) 🙁

Body found.  Bugger 😕

BBC News – Body found in search for presenter Michael Mosley

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kk9gvw8l0o