Swimmers lost at sea

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No photos here. Two little boys lost at sea at Barmouth at a coastal resort on the North Wales coast. I just thought that before you go on holiday to the seaside watch these little coves, sometimes they appear so safe and their not. Some have sand banks and even though they look safe to stand, when the tide turns it comes in from every which way and there no way of getting back to the shore, from what one of the locals said yesterday who had live in that area for some time. Where the sea is flat there could be currents under the surface, just be aware.
I've lived by the sea most of my life and mostly its a beautiful place to be, at night the sound of the waves is heard as they break on the pebbles and the colours of the sea when the sky turns blue is all beautiful. Here at Nefyn we have lost fishermen over the years so we know what the sea can do, its unpredictable and sometimes very unforgiving.
Please enjoy your holiday at the seaside but not only watch where you do swim, watch yourselves and your little ones. I'm not writing this to scare anyone just be careful out there.
 
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living on the north wales coast myself and having been a boat owner in the past ,i can only re-iterate mollies post .the sea especially around the welsh coast is treacherous at ALL times ,i can remember about 30 years ago joining a search for i think it was 5 lads who drowned in a speedboat incident ,it wasn't a pleasant experience ,
and even rivers hold unseen dangers ,( i actually saw this one happen) again around 25 years ago i was sat on my yacht in rhyl harbour doing some maintenance and a speedboat towing a ringo thing was on the river ,the driver must have underestimated the tide and the guy on the ringo smashed into the concrete supports of the blue bridge .he survived the smash but was badly cut ..now there lies the problem the cuts got infected from the river water and he died a short while after from wiels disease contracted from rat urine in the water.
 
Agree with Molly. The sea is no friend for certain...........

As a skipper of a 32' yacht you have to risk assess the days outing, precautions such as RYA courses, life saving gear mitigate these risks, but the risks are still there.......
 
The sea movements around Barmouth are very complicated. I had until recently a powerful cruiser based in Aberystwyth and we visited Barmouth quite a few times and it was very tricky. Even with the use of expensive chart plotters and echo sounders the tides and currents usually stopped us getting in to Barmouth.
 
I was at Aberdyfi that day and watched the life boat leave.tide was going out fast and kids were swimming in the water.people rock up and just get out in the water and don't realise that it's at the mouth of an estuary and is very dangerous.i have explained to my 9 yr old boys about water and tides.
What a horrible way to go...RIP
 
Waves are also very underestimated in their power, so easy to get picked up and taken out to sea.
Reckoned to be that every seventh wave is the big one, I also lived on the coast for a few years and some truth in that saying.

Another thing to watch for is erosion, I have seen people sitting under cliffs where there is evidence of recent falls, madness.
 
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