Time Out
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Another Sunday another one pulled out. This time a girl no older than 8 trying to swim to Small Boat Club at Kingston.
Life ring deployed so she could swim safely back.
That’s two people this summer I have assisted in difficulty.
I have never known the river to be so full of swimmers. On weirs, locks, bridges and swimming across. I had to ask two to move out the way in the middle of the river in Sunbury.
Do get me wrong we also went in to our waist from the beach at Hampton Court but never across.
I’m truly astonished we have not seen more deaths as yet.
Life ring deployed so she could swim safely back.
That’s two people this summer I have assisted in difficulty.
I have never known the river to be so full of swimmers. On weirs, locks, bridges and swimming across. I had to ask two to move out the way in the middle of the river in Sunbury.
Do get me wrong we also went in to our waist from the beach at Hampton Court but never across.
I’m truly astonished we have not seen more deaths as yet.