Something Nasty Happened on Windermere Today

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Two Deaths on Windermere Today

A YOUNG girl and woman have tragically died on a private boat on Windermere, police have confirmed.

Cumbria Police said they attended an incident on Windermere at around 4pm, after three people on a boat were reported to having serious breathing difficulties.

A 36-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl, both from Leyland, Lancashire, were treated at the scene and then air lifted to Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

Both have since tragically died. A man, who was also on the boat, is still receiving treatment at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
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From the gazette http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/10326093.Two_die_in_Windermere_boat_tragedy/


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Something pretty tragic has occurred on Lake Windermere this afternoon. 2 Helicopters, Police, Ambulance and Fire Brigade.
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The Glebe is closed off by the Police and things seem to be centred around the old Sheperds buildings and jetties. Perhaps they are just co-ordinating things from there.
 
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Very sad, Hopefully there are not a lot more of these, with it being a cold Easter with people trying to keep warm in boats and tents.
 
all very sad .... and probably avoidable as the Telegraph is reporting:
".... one theory is that the family were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a heater on board the boat."

Regardless of what the cause of death turns out to be .... I hope anyone with a gas installation on their boat will now ensure that they have a working carbon monoxide alarm installed ....

PP
 
It seems it was a bodged generator
Tony Rothwell, who manages Bowness Bay marina, said lake wardens told him that the victims' boat had been fitted with a faulty generator, which was connected to a fan heater.

Mr Rothwell said: "It was an amateur job, the boat had been fitted with a generator and the exhaust has leaked. It had been a very cold day and the fan heater was connected to the generator. It is a terrible tragedy."
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I know about CO, but if a cooker or heater is burning correctly it shouldn't produce CO, rather it should produce CO2 which ain't good for you either in high volumes. Or am I wrong? Just that in an enclosed boat we should take care either way. Maybe time to get a detector.
 
I bought a detector after I bought a cheap heater from a camping store - both for my boat.

The detector went nuts in the presence of the heater, and also, in the 'right' conditions in the presence of my single ring Origo.

Heater went.
 
Impaler said:
I know about CO, but if a cooker or heater is burning correctly it shouldn't produce CO, rather it should produce CO2 which ain't good for you either in high volumes. Or am I wrong? Just that in an enclosed boat we should take care either way. Maybe time to get a detector.
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Any appliance burning hydrocarbons is going to produce some combination of CO and CO2. If it's properly set up, the proportion of CO will be very small, but it's still nasty stuff and not good to have in an enclosed space like a boat cabin. It's just plain foolish to not have a CO detector in the boat - they are so cheap. Coincidentally, we've just taken delivery of our new boat and are kitting it out. I had not got round to fitting the CO alarm and woke in the early hours of Sunday morning with the Eberspacher sounding like a 747 taking off and wishing that I had.
 
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