The jet skiers should have checked a chart
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greeny
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Nope.
Slowboat35
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Being stuck on the putty for a few hours is "life threatening"?
I agree it might test the attention-span of the average jetskiier but it's hardly going to do them any harm, is it?
Our "rescue" society seems sometimes to have got a bit too advanced, methinks.
I agree it might test the attention-span of the average jetskiier but it's hardly going to do them any harm, is it?
Our "rescue" society seems sometimes to have got a bit too advanced, methinks.
Juan Twothree
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They were getting quite cold apparently.
More top-quality reporting from the Kent Messenger, which refers to "Sheppey's RNLI coastguard team".
bluerm166
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More to the point these particular jet skiers are beached in the nature reserve and the increased use of the flat water behind the Horse Sand,in numbers riding abreast and at extreme speeds threatens the seals that take their pups away from the main group and onto the banks in this particular area.Three porpoise that passed close behind us sailing into the east channel recently were within minutes overdriven by a pair of skiers appearing from Whitstable.
Stemar
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By all means blame them for disturbing seals unnecessarily, but as far as ending up on the putty is concerned. "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone"
Life-threatening? Probably not, unless they were stuck for a several days, but it was a useful training exercise for the lifeboat team.
As for the reporting, I rather doubt Kent Online can afford many Pulitzer Prize winners. I'm sure the Daily Mail would have done better.
Life-threatening? Probably not, unless they were stuck for a several days, but it was a useful training exercise for the lifeboat team.
As for the reporting, I rather doubt Kent Online can afford many Pulitzer Prize winners. I'm sure the Daily Mail would have done better.
Praxinoscope
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So hopefully they may be prosecuted under various wild-life protection laws? Just don't hold your breath for the relevant authorities to act.
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ctva
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Darwin Awards are getting harder to achieve.
Maybe, but surely an O Level / Grade in Googling would have sufficed....
As for the reporting, I rather doubt Kent Online can afford many Pulitzer Prize winners. I'm sure the Daily Mail would have done better.
capnsensible
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Good to see that two ill informed people were rescued from a nasty situation without prejudice. Hypothermia always lurks.
It would be a bit hopeful though to expect that the publicity around this might encourage others to plan more. Live in hope.
It would be a bit hopeful though to expect that the publicity around this might encourage others to plan more. Live in hope.
Cantata
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Having served on a CG Mud Rescue team for quite a few years I can assure any doubters that the mud in this area is quite deep enough in places to put lives at risk if they are daft enough to try and 'walk' ashore.
oldgit
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No names no pack drill. !
...some quite experienced locals who really ought to know better might have possibly run around in motorboat on the putty on the eastern end of the island at one time and then run aground at exactly the same point the following year.
Hiding in the cabin until the tide comes back or pretending the grounding was deliberate in order to scrub off the bottom seemed the best excuse .
zoidberg
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I seem to recall that gem of East Coast wisdom "When you can see the seagulls' knees, it's time to tack."