Iflatables in the sea, why would any parent let kids do it?

[katdarn79]

http://www.thesun.co....ws/article4341064.ece

Those poor men and their familys. All because of stupidity!

Why do people let there kids go out into the sea on inflatables? Would any one on here?

Kathryn xx

[katdarn79]

http://www.thesun.co....ws/article4341456.ece

[katdarn79]

http://www.thesun.co....ws/article4341064.ece

[Baldric]

Link not working

[Baldric]

'Tis now, thanks

[bookbinder]

There are some people who, if they can't actually see danger, they don't think that there is anything to worry about. That kind of person has to have their noses rubbed in it before the admit that it is there.

[katdarn79]

Two links from today & yesterday. xx

[237SJ]

Sometimes when people are not brought up near the sea they don`t understand or respect the dangers. It`s the same with holidaymakers who get themselves cut off by the tide, people who surf near known riptides and parents who look on while their kids dig massive holes in the sand on beaches, the sides of which cave in and suffocate them. It happens. I`m curious to know what happened to the man though. I`ve only been to West Wittering once and the sea didn`t look that dangerous to me. Maybe he wasn`t a proficient swimmer.

[katdarn79]

Its just so so sad, we hear these stories every year, my daughter is 13 now and there is no way i would ever let her go into the sea on one and never have done. xx

[Baldric]

I've got to ask, while these two men were trying to save the children, where were the parents, the ones that allowed their children to get into danger in the first place?
My thoughts go out to the families of these men.

[daffy654]

The sea doesn't always look dangerous from the shore. Hidden riptides can be lethal to even strong swimmers.

[ummmm]

Never. Never have and never would. A friend of ours was killed in Blackpool nearly two years ago. He was 14 and on a rubber ring.

[katdarn79]

baldric, my thoughts exactly where the hell was the parents.

So sad ummmm!!

[Booldawg]

even before I opened link I had a feeling this would be at West Wittering. Its a very popular beach down here due to it being sandy rather than stony. But it has lethal cross currents due to being on an estuary.

Theres plenty of signage to warn of the dangerous conditions but alot of people get into trouble there. A few years ago my niece and her friend were just out paddling about waist high and they couldnt get back out as the tide took them downstream. They ended up getting out about 1/4 mile down the beach.

[Mick-Talbot]

“The male went to the assistance of two children playing in a rubber ring some five metres from the shoreline.



I'm not really understanding this, 5 metres ? If it was only 5 metres from the shoreline , why were people 'onlooking' and not helping ?

[rowanwitch]

a human chain would have saved them all if that was the distance...

Still it is a lot easier than you'd think freak conditions off Brighton Beach I was less than 10 feet from the beach but chest high due to a dip started swimming and very quickly found myself 4 sections further down the beach and out of my depth took a while to break free and get back to my then husband... he hadn't noticed...

[Mick-Talbot]

Why do people let there kids go out into the sea on inflatables? Would any one on here?



I do but I am always with them, I wouldn't let them do it unsupervised .

[NOX]

Poor chap, no I wouldn't, no sensible adult would but I hope some of the people who regularly slate anyone whose here from Eastern Europe read this and make a note of the fact that the man who died saving the child was Bulgarian.

[shaneystar2]

I've seen a lot of this sort of thing living on the coast .People do it all the time No knowledge of the currents etc .
On holiday ,larking about .It only takes one shift in the tide for something like this to happen and they get swept out
"The emergency services were to late to try to save him "
If the government hadn't cut the local coastguard services to a bone a tragic accident may well have been avoided .

[ummmm]

Some beaches are fine and that makes people complacent.

[flicrat]

I think the man may have had a heart attack.