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.