[Leica] Paddle Boarding at Promenade Park

[Philippe]

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 à 05:18, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> a écrit :
> 
> 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.
> 
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