So serious someone fell in.
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Leighb
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You really don’t want to go in the water there. On the ebb the tide is very strong and there are two bridges that you might be swept into before being flushed out into the upper end of Yarmouth Harbour.
Elessar
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“ Initial reports said that two boats had collided, but it was later confirmed to be just one vessel. ”
Guess it was the latter then.
Easticks28
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As leighB has posted, it's a difficult stretch of river at anyting but slack water. Low water is at around 17. 15 there today, so there would have been quite a fierce ebb runnng.
Almost certain to be holiday makers, with little experience and very probaby not wearing LJs.
Almost certain to be holiday makers, with little experience and very probaby not wearing LJs.
Elessar
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Don’t doubt it. But still it should have been:
Bloke falls into dangerous stretch of water.
Not
Two boats in very serious crash.
Easticks28
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Probably - but in the immediate aftermath of any serious incident there is always confusion .
Elessar
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Yep. And confusion shouldn’t make the BBC news.
It’s now reported as a serious incident not a very serious crash.
A bit more like sensible reporting maybe. Also fairly pointless for the national news.
Easticks28
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It's actually being reported in the BBC local feed .
England selected
Not sure what news feed found it for you ......
Seastoke
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Why be so picky.
LittleSister
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The Yacht Station in the picture, and where the accident is said to have happened, is in the River Bure. North Quay (i.e. Yarmouth harbour), which is where the woman was said to have been seen, is in the River Yare, perhaps a quarter of a mile or more downstream. (The Bure is a tributary of the Yare.)
The tide does run very strongly down the Yare in particular, with a lot of turbulence where the rivers meet and the where water passes under a bridge. The quay walls are generally very high on the Yare through Yarmouth. I doubt a swimmer could get out on their own, even at the few steps there are.
From North Quay the river runs straight-ish and narrow a mile or two, then turns a sharp bend and shoots into the sea.
It doesn't look good.
The tide does run very strongly down the Yare in particular, with a lot of turbulence where the rivers meet and the where water passes under a bridge. The quay walls are generally very high on the Yare through Yarmouth. I doubt a swimmer could get out on their own, even at the few steps there are.
From North Quay the river runs straight-ish and narrow a mile or two, then turns a sharp bend and shoots into the sea.
It doesn't look good.
Easticks28
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One dead
Trapped woman dies in boat crash
Trapped woman dies in boat crash
Elessar
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Elessar
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Leighb
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Very sad news, I have just had a look on Google Maps, and that places North Quay on the Bure near Yarmouth Yacht Station which is where the accident happened.
LittleSister
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Yes, my error. I think of North Quay as the quay on the northern section, east side, of the Yare (I think it is, but can't remember where I got that from ), but the road called North Quay runs up the back of what I think of as North quay on the Yare, then round along adjacent to the Bure.
Greg2
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The currents on the Bure at Gt Yarmouth can be complex and a real problem for anyone ending up in the water. The tide can be going in one direction near the surface and the opposite direction underneath. Sadly, deaths on the Broads happen far too often. Unfortunately inexperience and / or not understanding the hazards of boating are inevitably factors.
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