Sea Rescue?

[glashen]

Naked man arrested after sea rescue in Poole Harbour

Even the headline is a contradiction, I mean I know sticking to the correct nautical terms can be regarded as excluding those not in the know, but surely the BBC should know the definition of Sea?

 

[elton]

Naked man arrested after sea rescue in Poole Harbour

Even the headline is a contradiction, I mean I know sticking to the correct nautical terms can be regarded as excluding those not in the know, but surely the BBC should know the definition of Sea?

"BBC English" is now an oxymoron.

As far as I can tell, they now employ no native English speakers at all, hence the problem.

 

[VicS]

Naked man arrested after sea rescue in Poole Harbour

Even the headline is a contradiction, I mean I know sticking to the correct nautical terms can be regarded as excluding those not in the know, but surely the BBC should know the definition of Sea?

It's a headline FFS

The sea is defined as the expanse of salt water that covers most of the earth's surface. Surely Poole harbour is part of that.

 

[GrahamD]

But Poole Harbour also has large expanses of mud, and people do occasionally get stuck there at low tide. Perhaps the BBC, being fully conversant with the range of hazards in Poole Harbour, believed it would be informative to their readers to specify the type of rescue. Or possibly the copy writer was as bored on a Sunday as the OP of this thread.

If we need something to debate, how about discussing whether a rescue from mud would constitute a "sea" rescue?

 

[chanelyacht]

If it's below MHWS, it's sea. If it's above, it's littoral.

Therefore, you can have "sea" mud, and "land" mud.

That's not definitive, but it's how we work it

 

[glashen]

It's a headline FFS

The sea is defined as the expanse of salt water that covers most of the earth's surface. Surely Poole harbour is part of that.

Well if you take the full oxford dictionary definition it is: "the expanse of salt water that covers most of the earth’s surface and surrounds its land masses"

Which is clearly not Poole Harbour.

I do object to the sloppy use of English , but I also find categorizing, pulling a drunk out of Poole Harbour as a Sea Rescue regrettable for the impression it may give of why we need the RNLI.

 

[macd]

glashen, you should get out more. Perhaps take elton with you, since you've neither anything constructive to offer in front of your laptops. Risible.

 

[Sandy]

It's a tad chilly to be naked at that time of day.

At least they did not call out the local Mountain Rescue Team (it being mud at the time).

 

[Coaster]

I wonder if Glashen thinks that Poole Harbour contains landwater?

Rather than seawater.

 

[grumpy_o_g]

The idea of headline was originally to convey a précis of the the article. Now it's designed to sell newspapers, which makes you wonder why the BBC stoop to it. The BBC also used to be the definitive source of correctly spoen and written English.

A better headline would have been "Drunken and naked man pulled from water off Poole Town Quay". Poole Town Quay is not sea by any stretch of the imagination. The opposite bank is about 100-150' or so away for most of it and Poole Bridge is a pretty small bridge by any standards. Loads of rivers have salt water in them, including the River Thames right up beyond the City so that's not a valid definition.

 

[alahol2]

It's a coded message to one of our agents in foreign lands. Use your imagination.

 

[macd]

Oh for gawd's sake, get a life. If it were the Boaters' Broadcast Corporation, some of you might have a point, but even that would be tenuous, at best. To borrow another West Country line: "The sea is out there, madam, between the land and the sky."