Sad drowning deaths

The saddest thing is that these deaths are avoidable, they are nearly always young men, who think they are invincible, and get out of their depth, or don’t understand about currents. Often there are warning notices, which they ignore too. Such a waste of lives.

Living near the coast we have lots of incidences of near fatalities where people and their dogs walk out over the beach and then get off by the incoming tide.

The RNLI go out and rescue them but during this week selfish, lazy people have parked their cars in spaces reserved for RNLI rescuers therefore delaying them setting off. These spaces are clearly marked as such but people just don’t care.

I had a cousin who drowned in a park lake in hot weather, in the early 50’s. He was 11. I was only a toddler then. Terrible for his parents as he was an only child.
I am very aware of the dangers of water and was very vigilant if we took any of our kids or grandchildren near inland water or the sea.

It’s surprising how many people openly ignore warning signs though. I used to fish at a very large upland reservoir and despite signs saying the water was very deep, cold, had currents (people don’t expect that in what appears to them to be still water) and hidden obstructions, they would cheerfully come down the bank, strip off and dash in. Being a licenced fishery, the water was patrolled by bailiffs in boats, but they can’t be everywhere.

It’s simply tragic. And those young women, sisters, who drowned off …Brighton was it?

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It’s simply tragic. And those young women, sisters, who drowned off …Brighton was it?

I tnink there may be a tragic story behind exactly whaat happened with those three sisters. It seems to not to have just been an accidental drowning .