Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds like they went paddle boarding without life jackets. On Friday, January 8, 2021, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote: > Last August (2020) I was sitting with my mother on the front porch of her > beach house in Maine, on Hunnewell Beach, at the mouth of the Kennebec > River (15 White Spot Way, Phippsburg ME 04562 > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/Kennebec+River+(15+White+Spot+Way,+Phippsburg+ME+04562?entry=gmail&source=g> > if you'd like to see it on a map). We saw a young couple launch their > paddleboards from the beach in ebb tide and head southeast away from the > beach. They had not considered the tide, and they were quickly caught up in > the river current and swept past Wood Island. Realizing they were in > trouble, I got her 10x50 Nikon binoculars to watch them. They were able to > paddle back against the current towards the beach, but a strong rip tide > carried them rapidly eastward into the full-bore river current and they > didn't make it to the beach. > > I telephoned the Coast Guard and the Phippsburg rescue squad as soon as I > looked through the binoculars, but it wasn't soon enough. I lost sight of > them as they passed Seguin Island. Their bodies were never recovered, but > their paddleboards turned up 2 weeks later near Boothbay Harbor. > > I'm glad the Mediterranean near Alicante is calm and not treacherous. I > have been at Hunnewell Beach in Phippsburg every summer of my life and at > least half of the winters of my life, and I know how incredibly complex and > dangerous its riverine and tidal flows are. I wish there had been some way > I could have warned these once-happy visitors that this was a bad idea. > > > On 2021-01-08 12:17 pm, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > >> My daughter does this a lot, in the Mediterranean she impresses me by >> going really long distances along the coast. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >