Helicopter sweeping back and forth over the beach/sea

JJpool

JJpool

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South shore area, seen it going past for an hour or so maybe. Presumably an incident....

Anyone seen?
 
Thats bad, people need to be careful especially visitors who maybe underestimate or don't understand the tides etc. Hope all are OK.
 
Pauls_Boutique said:
Might have been a bit previous on that unfortunately. Misread on Twitter, 1 found 2 still missing. Hope to God we wake up to better news but doesn’t sound great.
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No, I'm afraid not.

If they are still missing after all this time it can't be good but still hoping for the best.
 
Sister was down near the beach earlier this week.
Coastguard telling loads of people to get off the sand banks as the tide was coming in - most just ignoring them! 😟
 
Regarding the activity over the sea this evening - Fylde police have just released this statement.
We know that some of you will be concerned after seeing a police and emergency service presence in St Annes and so we thought we would share some information with you.

We were called at just before 6:55pm this evening (Saturday, August 15th) to a concern for the safety of two people believed to be in the water near to the pier in Annes.

It is thought that three people have been in the water but have got into difficulty and one, a 15-year-old boy, has managed to get to the shore. He is currently receiving medical treatment for suspected hypothermia.

The remaining two, believed to be a boy aged 16 and a man, 18, from Dewsbury are still missing. A search is underway by HM Coastguard and the RNLI to try and find them. We will continue to offer our support.

We will update you when we can.

If you have any information that could help the search, please call 101 quoting reference 1398 of August 15th.
 
tangerine_neil said:
Sister was down near the beach earlier this week.
Coastguard telling loads of people to get off the sand banks as the tide was coming in - most just ignoring them! 😟
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Always walk out to the sea with the dog and it's amazing how quickly the tide comes in and from all directions. You really have to keep your wits about you as it's so easy to get cut off and if you don't know the area you can soon be in trouble.
 
Unfortunately it’s getting all to familiar these days people from inland towns don’t have a clue about tides/currents/conditions when they go to the seaside.
I see it every week while either out fishing or walking the Dog the number of people around Cleveleys being cut off with incoming tides they just seem totally oblivious to it, many with young children as well.
 
Saw it myself last night. A family with toddlers, just wandering around on the sand by Anchorsholme. People were waving at them from the Prom and took them a while to work out why, and that the tide was coming in around them.
Luckily the water was only waist high by the time they made it back. Another 10 minutes and they would have been really struggling.
 
It’s the speed it happens. If you’re not paying attention it’s come in around you before you notice anything is amiss. By then you need to get moving towards the shoreline but it looks deep even when it’s only a two or three feet deep.

I’m from Blackpool and nearly got caught out up Bispham way once when walking with my mum. Easily done. She was the one to alert me, I was oblivious.
 
michellebutterflyhotel said:
Regarding the activity over the sea this evening - Fylde police have just released this statement.
We know that some of you will be concerned after seeing a police and emergency service presence in St Annes and so we thought we would share some information with you.

We were called at just before 6:55pm this evening (Saturday, August 15th) to a concern for the safety of two people believed to be in the water near to the pier in Annes.

It is thought that three people have been in the water but have got into difficulty and one, a 15-year-old boy, has managed to get to the shore. He is currently receiving medical treatment for suspected hypothermia.

The remaining two, believed to be a boy aged 16 and a man, 18, from Dewsbury are still missing. A search is underway by HM Coastguard and the RNLI to try and find them. We will continue to offer our support.

We will update you when we can.

If you have any information that could help the search, please call 101 quoting reference 1398 of August 15th.
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Search now stood down with no result for the missing two brothers. Not good.
 
As a retired Operations Manager at Holyhead Coastguard we had some tragic incidents. The sad thing is that the majority were avoidable. Inexperienced adults taking kids out in inadequate Craft. Inflatable Lillo’s and persons having little respect for Weather and tides.

I know how the person feels now at Holyhead CGOC( it is the Control centre for all maritime incidents in North Wales/ North West) who has just had to make the decision to call off the search for the two missing teenagers at Lytham.
Family will be urging the search to continue however you have to assess the situation and no human can survive in water for that amount of time.
What is annoying are the physcic mediums who contact relatives claiming they are still alive and are clinging on for life.
 
how come we don't have lifeguards at certain points along the fylde Coast?

They were at st Anne's pier - swimming.

Lifeguards are in place at all non uk beach destinations, and if I recall they have some on the south coast.
 
Saw the tide times for yesterday. It would have been well on it's way back to high tide. The most dangerous time. Only the week before I was invited for a walk to an island off the Wirral by friends from an inland town who were surprised when I declined after checking the tides to avoid exactly this kind of event. They hadn't even considered tide movements.
 
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