Shock horror- water disappears in river Fowey!

[Close hauled]

BBC Cornwall reports today

A couple waited seven-and-a-half hours for high tide after their vessel ran aground on a river in Cornwall.
Falmouth Coastguard said a husband, wife and their dog had become "stuck in the mud" on the River Fowey at about 13:30 BST on Wednesday.
The RNLI's inshore lifeboat from Fowey assisted in retrieving the vessel at high tide at about 21:00 BST.
Peter Boulter, from Falmouth Coastguard, said he had kept in touch with the couple: "I spoke to the lady and they said they were all fine and her and her husband hadn't managed to kill each other yet."
The alarm was raised at about 16:50 BST to coastguard teams, who had to wait until high tide to be able to rescue them.
Mr Boulter said: "They miscalculated the time they went up the river and got stuck in the mud.
"I made a few phone calls to make sure they were alright throughout the day."

 

[WoodyP]

And in other news tide comes in
Stunning shot shows van stranded during high tides

 

[Minerva]

It comes in, then goes out again. You'd think it'd just make its bloody mind up as to where it wants to be and stop fannying about.

 

[Hermit]

The slowest of slow news days...

 

[Tomaret]

Do you write headlines for the Times - I was expecting to read about somebody not knowing about tides (a Greek, or an Italian, perhaps) complaining about the moon and it’s misdeeds, rather than a slow news day story about a couple misjudging the ebb and keeping in a good humour about it. Had your title been “Boat grounds on the ebb and re floats on the flood” I might not have read it. I guess if Cornwall had any school with RAAC roofs we might never have known about this, but the Beeb has to write about something.

 

[Seven Spades]

I don't think it is fair to make fun of them. They are not responsible to the BBCs reporting style. It does not sound as though they made a fuss.

 

[johnalison]

A friend of ours took her grandchildren to Clacton for the beach on day. As they settled down a woman and her children came nearby, having had to move from the water's edge as the tide came in. Some while later they had to move again, and the woman said to my friend "Does it always do this?".

 

[penfold]

A friend of ours took her grandchildren to Clacton for the beach on day. As they settled down a woman and her children came nearby, having had to move from the water's edge as the tide came in. Some while later they had to move again, and the woman said to my friend "Does it always do this?".

"just at the weekend"

 

[LittleSister]

And in other news tide comes in
Stunning shot shows van stranded during high tides

I wonder whether the journalist writing that doesn't know what s/he's taking about, or is trying to precipitate some more 'incidents' to report in the coming months. They've written 'Similar high tides are expected between September 30 and October 2'. Most readers would, having just been warned about the dangers of high tides, take from that that there weren't any high tides except on those dates.

 

[Juan Twothree]

I recently had a very angry lady call in at the boathouse, demanding to know where all the water had gone. She'd brought her children to this exact spot the previous week, and the water was at the top of the beach, and they'd had a great time. Now there was lots of sand and mud, it was a very long trek to the sea, and it had completely spoilt the family's day out.

I wasn't sure exactly how that was the RNLI's fault (although most things seem to be these days), but I politely suggested that she come back in a week's time and see if things had improved.

 

[Boathook]

I recently had a very angry lady call in at the boathouse, demanding to know where all the water had gone. She'd brought her children to this exact spot the previous week, and the water was at the top of the beach, and they'd had a great time. Now there was lots of sand and mud, it was a very long trek to the sea, and it had completely spoilt the family's day out.

I wasn't sure exactly how that was the RNLI's fault (although most things seem to be these days), but I politely suggested that she come back in a week's time and see if things had improved.

Should have said that it had been sold to help finance the rnli and other rescue services due to visitors not leaving donations!

 

[KevinV]

Should have said that it had been sold to help finance the rnli and other rescue services due to visitors not leaving donations!

Or said the water companies had pumped it away and dumped it in the sea (somewhere about six hours away).

 

[Sandy]

For shocks I think you have the wrong river!

This came in from KHM Plymouth this afternoon.

PLYMNAVWARN 023/23 EXCLUSION ZONE RIVER LYNHER

1.A SEVERED OVERHEAD POWERLINE IS CONFIRMED IN THE WATER IN POSITION 50° 22.782’ N 004° 16.764’ W IN THE RIVER LYNHER AT ERTH HILL (NE BANK OPPOSITE HAWKS WOOD).

2.ELECTRICAL ISOLATION HAS BEEN MADE. DUE TO THE POTENTIAL NAVIGATIONAL HAZARD PRESENTED BY THE CABLE, AN EXCLUSION ZONE IS IN FORCE 100 METRES AROUND THE LOCATION AT PARA 1.

3.MARINERS NAVIGATING IN THE VICINITY ARE ADVISED TO KEEP AN EXTRA LOOKOUT AND NAVIGATE WITH PARTICULAR CAUTION REMAINING CLEAR OF THE 100M EXCLUSION ZONE.

 

[penfold]

Did it fall off naturally or did some dobber drive their boat into it?

 

[westernman]

For shocks I think you have the wrong river!

This came in from KHM Plymouth this afternoon.

PLYMNAVWARN 023/23 EXCLUSION ZONE RIVER LYNHER

1.A SEVERED OVERHEAD POWERLINE IS CONFIRMED IN THE WATER IN POSITION 50° 22.782’ N 004° 16.764’ W IN THE RIVER LYNHER AT ERTH HILL (NE BANK OPPOSITE HAWKS WOOD).

2.ELECTRICAL ISOLATION HAS BEEN MADE. DUE TO THE POTENTIAL NAVIGATIONAL HAZARD PRESENTED BY THE CABLE, AN EXCLUSION ZONE IS IN FORCE 100 METRES AROUND THE LOCATION AT PARA 1.

3.MARINERS NAVIGATING IN THE VICINITY ARE ADVISED TO KEEP AN EXTRA LOOKOUT AND NAVIGATE WITH PARTICULAR CAUTION REMAINING CLEAR OF THE 100M EXCLUSION ZONE.

100 mile exclusion zone. Wow! It must have been some power line.

 

[jlavery]

I recently had a very angry lady call in at the boathouse, demanding to know where all the water had gone. She'd brought her children to this exact spot the previous week, and the water was at the top of the beach, and they'd had a great time. Now there was lots of sand and mud, it was a very long trek to the sea, and it had completely spoilt the family's day out.

I wasn't sure exactly how that was the RNLI's fault (although most things seem to be these days), but I politely suggested that she come back in a week's time and see if things had improved.

Are you a GP in your other life? "Take 2 paracetamol and come back in 2 weeks" was my (now retired) GP wife's stock solution.

 

[Sandy]

100 mile exclusion zone. Wow! It must have been some power line.

That would be a huge exclusion zone. For some reason all NtoMs are all done in capitals, it must be a navy thing. It should be an 'm' for metre.

 

[Sandy]

Did it fall off naturally or did some dobber drive their boat into it?

More like a very high mast!

 

[Thistle]

Sat on the sand at Loch Morlich during the Glesga Fair some 60 years ago heard a wummin from that fair city enquire when the tide would be coming in.

 

[biscuit]

Said to me by a rescued casualty, N Yorkshire coast.." well, of course I know the tide goes in and out, but not up and down as well"