TSB240
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Ribrides managed to make there own freak wave on the Menai Strait. http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/menai-strait-lap-wales-boat-9591563
Ribrides in trouble
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Lloydroberts
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TSB240
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Anybody who hospitalized a customer would surely be subjected to some sort of enquiry and discipline from the authorities that licence these rides. The only freak waves on the Menai last night were probably generated by rib wakes!
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Vitesse
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The article makes a point of the trip being non-commercial.
TSB240
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The article doesn't the proprietor does!
Even if it was a charitable ride but you still have a duty of care towards your non paying guests. I suspect that someone is going to get a ticking off from the MCA.
There was no way there were any "freak waves" on the straits on Sunday afternoon/ evening between Bangor and Caernarfon.
The only waves I saw were from the visitors on the Balmoral as she gracefully passed me on her way from Menai Bridge to Caernarfon.
https://www.facebook.com/MvBalmoral...0.1436283516./872730256130872/?type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/WeAreAnglesey/videos/1625181811059243/
Even if it was a charitable ride but you still have a duty of care towards your non paying guests. I suspect that someone is going to get a ticking off from the MCA.
There was no way there were any "freak waves" on the straits on Sunday afternoon/ evening between Bangor and Caernarfon.
The only waves I saw were from the visitors on the Balmoral as she gracefully passed me on her way from Menai Bridge to Caernarfon.
https://www.facebook.com/MvBalmoral...0.1436283516./872730256130872/?type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/WeAreAnglesey/videos/1625181811059243/
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Lloydroberts
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so, you are blaming them.....casting doubt on their procedures and account of what happened.
I suppose the adverse publicity won't harm other rib ride businesses in the area.
I suppose the adverse publicity won't harm other rib ride businesses in the area.
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Maybe the passengers were silly, didn't hold on properly, and just fell off.
Whitelighter
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The article doesn't the proprietor does!
Even if it was a charitable ride but you still have a duty of care towards your non paying guests. I suspect that someone is going to get a ticking off from the MCA.
There was no way there were any "freak waves" on the straits on Sunday afternoon/ evening between Bangor and Caernarfon.
The only waves I saw were from the visitors on the Balmoral as she gracefully passed me on her way from Menai Bridge to Caernarfon.
https://www.facebook.com/MvBalmoral...0.1436283516./872730256130872/?type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/WeAreAnglesey/videos/1625181811059243/
Care to share your interest or exactly what axe it is you have to grind?
Solitaire
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Jez, probably no axe to grind. But if the vessel is coded, irrespective of charging then the MAIB should be notified. This incident involved injury on a coded vessel.
Whitelighter
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I don't doubt or disagree with that. In fact who says they haven't? The OP seems to want to make a point about the company and it's unclear exactly why
Solitaire
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I have had some interesting PMs on the matter. The operator must involve MAIB. I say no more.
TSB240
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My interest is as a N.Wales boater (ex private rib owner) on the Menai on that evening.
NW boaters tend to use MOBO as an informal means of communication. (My humble apologies for this!)
You will see from my tag line that I am moored midway on the route from Menai Bridge to Caernarfon.
I was out on the strait most of that day and the only time I observed conditions that might be described to a reporter as" freak "were at Puffin Sound.
A properly conducted commercial rib would handle these conditions with ease and without causing two POBs
Conditions between Menai Bridge and Caernarfon were benign in comparison.
I woke up on Monday morning to see the article in the local Daily Post (lousy reporting IMHO)and thought to bring it to the attention of our friends on YBW based in the North Wales.
I have no axe to grind nor commented on the operating procedures of Ribride other than their trying to describe their rides as non commercial!
I surmised that a MAIB report would be likely to trouble them and suspect that this remains the case.
Perhaps people have short memories but Plas Menai had a similar incident in 2009.....
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...Mka-2_6wRpW2Uj7UPaaqMMg&bvm=bv.96952980,d.d24
But this was on Caernarfon Bar in Category D waters with a much smaller rib being driven by an inexperienced helm!
jrudge
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Does anyone else find this sort of thing irritating on a public forum. It is ... public.
If you want to "say no more" then surely don't bother to say anything in the first place. The "say no more" is simply innuendo for I know more than you and I want to imply something about someone else.
If someone feels that strongly then call the MAIB and be done with it. Tittle Tattle on the forum is best left to the lounge!
gjgm
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Depends on how you care to read "say no more". It could mean as you suggest, or it could mean "my point made".
Searush
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Is it the unaccustomed hot weather that is making people grumpy? There was a hearing - anyone know the outcome?