The Drowning Thread

[Di Wundrin]

I recall one rescued bloke who was amazed to be told he should have done that. He thought because the flags were red that it meant NOT to swim there. They're red and yellow but they just see the red on them apparently.

Red flag = danger zone. Asian logic and understandable. Maybe we should change the colour of the flags?

Just to make it more confusing plain red flags do mean not to swim on the beach at all.

Maybe a tweaking of communication would be in order??

[Admin]

I guess that possible, although the Asian drownings seem to be more swept off the rocks while fishing, and the outside flag swimmers are stupid locals.

May be different in Oz.

[Di Wundrin]

Could be a diff tourist demographic. The rock fishermen are mainly Asian, S.E. Nam etc and probably recent immigrants, but the surfing clueless are often Korean unless it's just coincidence on random viewings. Tourists for beaches, locals for the rocks?

Gruesome subject but intriguing.

[Admin]

Here's one that could easily have been three deaths today - beaches shut, no patrols, so father takes his kids swimming at one of the most dangerous beaches you'd ever find: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300799 ... -condition

That's the surf beach closest to us and we go there a lot. Absurdly dangerous and with a rip every day of the year as water gets sucked into and pushed out of Manukau Harbour at the end of the beach.

[Admin]

I might have to change the title to "and shark attack..."

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia ... ver-attack

$1000 to 1 it's a bull. Nasty fuckers who will attack you just because they can. Very human.

[Di Wundrin]

I might have to change the title to "and shark attack..."

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia ... ver-attack

$1000 to 1 it's a bull. Nasty fuckers who will attack you just because they can. Very human.

"London to a brick" you've picked that right. They're river specialists. They've been spotted in the Parramatta Rvr Kms from the Harbour in 'Sydney pretty often too.

Poor kid, only the 2nd attack there in 50 years.

[Admin]

"London to a brick" you've picked that right. They're river specialists. They've been spotted in the Parramatta Rvr Kms from the Harbour in 'Sydney pretty often too.

Poor kid, only the 2nd attack there in 50 years.

A guy I watch on TV who specialises in river attacks has found them over 50 km from the sea.

Yeah, sad business - at 16, she had her whole life ahead.

[arthwollipot]

Australian beach drowning statistics rise as lifesavers as plead with public to stay safe

Australians are being urged to take care by the water, with the latest drowning figures showing the nation is experiencing a deadlier than usual summer.

New South Wales is on track for a record-breaking summer of drownings, as Victoria reels from its most deadly Christmas holidays in almost two decades.

Yesterday a man died in a suspected drowning at a beach in inner Melbourne, while on Wednesday a couple died after being pulled from the water off Mallacoota, in the state's east.

The deaths followed four drownings in the four days from Christmas Day to December 28, representing an 18-year high for the holiday period.

"This is the worst start to the new year possible for affected families," said Life Saving Victoria CEO Catherine Greaves.

[Di Wundrin]

I only found out yesterday, (Home carer gossip) that 2 people have drowned on local beaches here in the last couple of weeks. And it didn't even make the news.
Although I can only find one, the other (according to the gossip) had a heart attack on the way out of the surf so not technically, a drowning. Old blokes in a big storm surf, silly lads.

[stanky]

Bull sharks, btw, have been spotted as far as 700 miles up the Mississippi river. Interactions with humans in fresh water are evidently very rare.