Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Back in time, I went windsurfing off the Eastern coast of England. Nearly drowned due to adverse winds and currents. A lesson in choking I will never, EVER forget. Keep safe with that mask on. Amities Philippe > Le 9 janv. 2021 ? 05:18, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> a ?crit > : > > Last August (2020) I was sitting with my mother on the front porch of her > beach house in Maine, on Hunnewell Beach, at the mouth of the Kennebec > River (15 White Spot Way, Phippsburg ME 04562 if you'd like to see it on a > map). We saw a young couple launch their paddleboards from the beach in > ebb tide and head southeast away from the beach. They had not considered > the tide, and they were quickly caught up in the river current and swept > past Wood Island. Realizing they were in trouble, I got her 10x50 Nikon > binoculars to watch them. They were able to paddle back against the > current towards the beach, but a strong rip tide carried them rapidly > eastward into the full-bore river current and they didn't make it to the > beach. > > I telephoned the Coast Guard and the Phippsburg rescue squad as soon as I > looked through the binoculars, but it wasn't soon enough. I lost sight of > them as they passed Seguin Island. Their bodies were never recovered, but > their paddleboards turned up 2 weeks later near Boothbay Harbor. > > I'm glad the Mediterranean near Alicante is calm and not treacherous. I > have been at Hunnewell Beach in Phippsburg every summer of my life and at > least half of the winters of my life, and I know how incredibly complex > and dangerous its riverine and tidal flows are. I wish there had been some > way I could have warned these once-happy visitors that this was a bad idea. > > > On 2021-01-08 12:17 pm, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >> My daughter does this a lot, in the Mediterranean she impresses me by >> going really long distances along the coast. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information