[Leica] Paddle Boarding at Promenade Park

[John Lee]

Sounds like they went paddle boarding without life jackets.

On Friday, January 8, 2021, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:

> 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
> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/Kennebec+River+(15+White+Spot+Way,+Phippsburg+ME+04562?entry=gmail&source=g>
> 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.
>>
>
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