Bournemouth beach incident
Discussion
Two dead, 8 injured and a man arrested.
No real details about what happened in the news so far. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-6577146...
No real details about what happened in the news so far. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-6577146...
Edited by Gareth1974 on Thursday 1st June 09:04
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12147275/...
'group of 10 youngsters jumped off pier and were dragged out to sea by riptide'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12147275/...
'group of 10 youngsters jumped off pier and were dragged out to sea by riptide'
V8covin said:
oakdale said:
Latest I've seen says he was on a jet ski.
One of the lifeguards was on a jet ski,may have been himhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bo...
Some reports say they were dragged out by a rip-tide
I wish schools would teach beach safety. Rips are usually very localised and you basically swim across them to get out of the rip.
Where there are waves there are rips, you can even see them from the beach as an area of smaller flatter waves.
It really is basic stuff
I wish schools would teach beach safety. Rips are usually very localised and you basically swim across them to get out of the rip.
Where there are waves there are rips, you can even see them from the beach as an area of smaller flatter waves.
It really is basic stuff
blueg33 said:
Some reports say they were dragged out by a rip-tide
I wish schools would teach beach safety. Rips are usually very localised and you basically swim across them to get out of the rip.
Where there are waves there are rips, you can even see them from the beach as an area of smaller flatter waves.
It really is basic stuff
I grew up on that stretch of coast, rip currents were never a thing then, forty years ago, so far as I recall. We just used to swim out a quarter mile or so and sit on the sandbanks, wait for the tide to come in then swim back. Lovely. But apparently they are a thing now. I wonder what's changed?I wish schools would teach beach safety. Rips are usually very localised and you basically swim across them to get out of the rip.
Where there are waves there are rips, you can even see them from the beach as an area of smaller flatter waves.
It really is basic stuff
Yertis said:
blueg33 said:
Some reports say they were dragged out by a rip-tide
I wish schools would teach beach safety. Rips are usually very localised and you basically swim across them to get out of the rip.
Where there are waves there are rips, you can even see them from the beach as an area of smaller flatter waves.
It really is basic stuff
I grew up on that stretch of coast, rip currents were never a thing then, forty years ago, so far as I recall. We just used to swim out a quarter mile or so and sit on the sandbanks, wait for the tide to come in then swim back. Lovely. But apparently they are a thing now. I wonder what's changed?I wish schools would teach beach safety. Rips are usually very localised and you basically swim across them to get out of the rip.
Where there are waves there are rips, you can even see them from the beach as an area of smaller flatter waves.
It really is basic stuff
Its only where there are few small waves that there wont be a discernible rip somewhere
blueg33 said:
Some reports say they were dragged out by a rip-tide
I wish schools would teach beach safety. Rips are usually very localised and you basically swim across them to get out of the rip.
Where there are waves there are rips, you can even see them from the beach as an area of smaller flatter waves.
It really is basic stuff
Would rips be a thing if the water was deep enough to be able to jump in to from a pier? I've only ever experienced them in shallower water - still amazingly powerful and scary if you don't know what to do, but I didn't think they happened in deeper water.I wish schools would teach beach safety. Rips are usually very localised and you basically swim across them to get out of the rip.
Where there are waves there are rips, you can even see them from the beach as an area of smaller flatter waves.
It really is basic stuff
ReallyReallyGood said:
Man was ‘on’ the water, not hit by a vessel, yet someone is arrested for manslaughter? Fell out of a banana boat or something?
It is very odd with what's being reported, and the lack of detail. You would think that it being a public beach there would be plenty of eye witnesses to what happened.
Yertis said:
I grew up on that stretch of coast, rip currents were never a thing then, forty years ago, so far as I recall. We just used to swim out a quarter mile or so and sit on the sandbanks, wait for the tide to come in then swim back. Lovely. But apparently they are a thing now. I wonder what's changed?
I love there now and agree. But the tide does run along the beach quite fast and you could easily wear yourself out trying to swim against it back to the pier. We swim out to the 5 knot markers and it can take 45 minutes to get there and less than 15 to get back.My daughter was there at the time. She went into the water with her friends but said it was far too cold and they didn't stay in long. She didn't see the actual incident happen but saw all the people in trouble in the water, and the lifeguards pulling them into the beach and resuscitating them. They were shouting at people to get out the water, but were being ignored and people still going in. Sounds a right mess.
Tankrizzo said:
The only thing I can think is that some bloke was encouraging a bunch of kids to jump off the pier into water that was too shallow, all at the same time.
I think this can be the only explanation. As there are people with significant injuries yet no vessel was involved.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff