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 Y Ddraig Goch  In The Crowd 25 Aug 16 10.38am |
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bexleydave  Barnehurst 25 Aug 16 10.42am |
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I have been going to Camber Sands for over 60 years. One of my aunts owned one of the cottages right on the beach (Marine Cottages) and, for a while, The Green Owl Hotel. I've been there hundreds of times and it is one of the safest beaches anywhere. Because of the shallow slope of the beach, the tide does go out a very long way and comes in relatively quickly, but at a lot less than walking pace. You can wade out a hundred yards and the water won't be up to your waist. One person could get into trouble anywhere if they swim out far enough, but five adults, when the tide was coming in, on a calm day with little wind, with no one claiming to have seen any of them on the beach beforehand, with no belongings left on the beach, and no ID on any of them? The 'fully dressed' report seems to actually be 'wearing shorts and shirts'. Does anyone go swimming, and we'd have to be talking serious swimming here, not having a paddle, dressed like that? Would five people do that? Edit: Based on link above it would appear that five people would be stupid enough, if the police have now got the story right. Edited by bexleydave (25 Aug 2016 10.47am)
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| Stuk Top half 25 Aug 16 10.47am |
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My guess would be that they couldn't swim and the flat calm water they entered gave them a false sense of security.
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| dannyb1 Chichester 25 Aug 16 11.13am |
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Drunk possibly?
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| Part Time James 25 Aug 16 11.14am |
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Originally posted by Stuk
My guess would be that they couldn't swim and the flat calm water they entered gave them a false sense of security. And their shirt and tie combo didn't probably help either.
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| Stuk Top half 25 Aug 16 2.16pm |
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Group of Sri Lankan lads apparently. I'd say not being able to swim is still most probable.
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| Sportyteacher London 25 Aug 16 2.52pm |
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Visited Camber Sands at start of August: beautiful stretch of sandy beach but packed with swimming very popular with the tourists. Hidden danger without doubt is the threat of riptides with no evidence of lifeguards etc nearby. Too many folk just blithely far out off the beach in the sea swimming and not recognising potential danger.
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regal_eagle  somewhere 25 Aug 16 2.58pm |
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Originally posted by matthau
I read something about a large fish...don't know what to say about that. and no I'm not making a joke. I did read this today 'Strange' fish, not large:
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| Sportyteacher London 25 Aug 16 3.28pm |
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Originally posted by Sportyteacher
Visited Camber Sands at start of August: beautiful stretch of sandy beach but packed with swimming very popular with the tourists. Hidden danger without doubt is the threat of riptides with no evidence of lifeguards etc nearby. Too many folk just blithely far out off the beach in the sea swimming and not recognising potential danger. News now confirming that deaths at Camber Sands were caused by falling into sandbars whilst tide had markedly increased force.
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| Mapletree Croydon 25 Aug 16 3.42pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
Group of Sri Lankan lads apparently. I'd say not being able to swim is still most probable. Strange how it's a smallish island yet so many people don't swim there. I guess these may have been non-swimmers.
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| dannyh wherever I lay my hat....... 25 Aug 16 3.53pm |
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I go sea fishing alot and if your going off the bottom (not wreck fishing) weaver fish are plentiful this time of year. It's the lesser Weaver fish that's the b******, get stung with one of them and you'll want to cut your foot off. Thankfully it's normally the normal variety around our waters. I did pull one out the oggin once, cut my line fcuk that.
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| Stuk Top half 25 Aug 16 4.16pm |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Strange how it's a smallish island yet so many people don't swim there. I guess these may have been non-swimmers. It's the same on so many other small islands, the Caribbean for example. You get people that work on boats who not only can't swim, they're actually afraid of the water altogether. In Sri Lanka it's a much bigger problem for women as it's not generally accepted for them to wear swimsuits. So they either don't learn at all or just go in the shallows fully dressed.
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