Any surfers out there? The storms coming!

[easy-lift guy]

Folks really need to be aware of conditions above and below the surface. Rip tide is typically under estimated along our gold and sun coast lines. During the winter months many folks play the parts of fools and often enough really hurt them selfs and occasional end up dead from drowning. I am sure Rich can vouch for how strong the rip tide or under tow can be!

easy-lift guy

[Adam M]

Folks really need to be aware of conditions above and below the surface. Rip tide is typically under estimated along our gold and sun coast lines. During the winter months many folks play the parts of fools and often enough really hurt them selfs and occasional end up dead from drowning. I am sure Rich can vouch for how strong the rip tide or under tow can be!

easy-lift guy

 

Rips are a really quick way of getting out back in big surf. Unfortunately on the more popular beaches, this is where novices come a cropper as they don't know about them, don't know how to deal with them, and have no intention of going out back so end up being dragged out from strong 2-3foot faces of whitewater, to the overhead barreling monsters where they get held down by 3-4 consecutive waves, before either getting pushed in enough that they are out of the impact zone, get rescued or the bad thing.

[Dan White]

Glad I'm not out west this week, had enough of that sort of weather in the run up to Christmas! This was racing home on the 22nd.

 

http://web.stagram.com/p/615712852125026915_39895897

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Glad I'm not out west this week, had enough of that sort of weather in the run up to Christmas! This was racing home on the 22nd.

 

http://web.stagram.com/p/615712852125026915_39895897

 

Port bridge wing T23?

[teepeeat]

Port bridge wing T23?

 

if it was, he want's to be getting on a proper boat for that kind of weather :lol:

[Dan White]

Close, River!

Fishery Protection Squadron - who needs the excitement of Afghan when you've got the North Sea in January.

[teepeeat]

bah - north sea's an enclosed pond

want to get out in the Atlantic proper

[Rich2484]

Sadly another body was pulled today.......

 

It really makes me angry at the stupidity of some people.

[Dan White]

Fair one, but not this week thank you very much. Our sister ship drew that short straw this patrol. Spent more than enough time down on the continental shelf boarding the Spaniards and kicking the French out of the scillies this autumn just gone. Not pleasant in some of those leftover hurricanes! But the Thames estuary is still equally miserable tonightI

[Dan White]