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Roger_007

DoctorEdgeWild wrote: »

These rescues are great. So good to know there are great people out there who put other people first.


...but Jaysus they are a boring listen.

I have to agree. This lad should have told Liveline that he did what he felt he needed to do and leave it at that. No need for a blow by blow account.

shearforce

Dan Jaman wrote: »

There should have been some jet-skiers around.

jet scooters you mean surely

Atlantic Dawn

No flag flying to say to swim?

Roger_007

Roger_007 wrote: »

I have to agree. This lad should have told Liveline that he did what he felt he needed to do and leave it at that. No need for a blow by blow account.

When people are emotionally involved it's very hard to be cut and dried about it... but going on radio I would be editing myself in this regard.

BPKS

Might be a good idea NOT to bring your kids out in the water when theres no lifeguards on duty

Del.Monte

No life guards but they still went in?

retro:electro

I miss Joe’s irrelevant questions. “And what colour was the water?”

Losty Dublin

I'm getting fierce confused here. The caller is being let tell his story and Katie isn't being rude or interrupting. It's not on!

shearforce

joe would have some cancer angle by now or surely a family member who drowned maybe...

CH3OH

Can we get the parents on line 2?

That poor man is feeling "guilty" in case his great actions hadn't paid off, and it wouldn't have been his doing if they hadn't.

DoctorEdgeWild

shearforce wrote: »

bit harsh, this lad saved the lads life and it ain't that bad a tale either

100% the chap is fantastic for doing so.

But the tales recanted slowly over the airwaves in detail just doesn't do it for me. At all. Each to their own though! I'm happy to be a bored listener if a poor kid was saved, that's for sure.

I think he might benefit by going on a water rescue course to deal with this.

Atlantic Dawn

CH3OH wrote: »

Can we get the parents on line 2?

No they are down the beach today for more fun so to speak.

Dan Jaman

shearforce wrote: »

jet scooters you mean surely

Water Vespas.

SEPT 23 1989

the local Mayor Larry Vaughn wont be happy with this coverage

BPKS

BPKS wrote: »

Might be a good idea NOT to bring your kids out in the water when theres no lifeguards on duty

There were no flags saying it was safe to swim so they swam anyway.


And totally an aside, but a pet peeve of mine is people who refer to people by name to people who don't know who the people are or their relationships.

"Johnny did this and then dave did that and then Mary came along. "

He did 100% of what he could have done.

CH3OH

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

No they are down the beach today for more fun so to speak.

I can picture them saying: "Sure they were just having fun"

ShamNNspace

CH3OH wrote: »

Can we get the parents on line 2?

Sounds like they frigged off without thanking him or maybe I missed something

BPKS

Fair play to him anyway.

Hopefully parents might take heed and only leave kids in the ocean when there are lifeguards on duty. And also make sure they are supervised.

2smiggy

Deleted User wrote: »

For de sake of callers Katie is great, for our sakes dere's little entertainment. She doesn't interrupt them, splutter and sigh, belch, breath heavily or ask too much about death.

this sums it up perfectly , but ruins our fun !!

Hector Savage

Is this gonna be a water safety advert for the next hour ?

shearforce

DoctorEdgeWild wrote: »

100% the chap is fantastic for doing so.

But the tales recanted slowly over the airwaves in detail just doesn't do it for me. At all. Each to their own though! I'm happy to be a bored listener if a poor kid was saved, that's for sure.

unfortunately every Mary, Ann and Mick will be on now to tell us tales from way back when they nearly drowned

bmorrissey

"and how did you get on during the pandemic Paul?"

Dan Jaman

Going by what the rescuer described, the beach sloped steeply away from several yards out.
I've nearly been caught by that, too.

Hector Savage

shearforce wrote: »

unfortunately every Mary, Ann and Mick will be on now to tell us tales from way back when they nearly drowned

Bingo !

ShamNNspace

shearforce wrote: »

unfortunately every Mary, Ann and Mick will be on now to tell us tales from way back when they nearly drowned

Was Kathyrn anywhere near???

John_Rambo

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Going by what the rescuer described, the beach sloped steeply away from several yards out.
I've nearly been caught by that, too.

Shore dump.

Hector Savage

Jesus, even if she goes on for a paddle she is asking is it safe ???

Lunatic alert!!

I'd say she is doubly vaccinated and still wears 2 masks when she is walking alone out in Howth.

Dan Jaman

shearforce wrote: »

unfortunately every Mary, Ann and Mick will be on now to tell us tales from way back when they nearly drowned

Katrine Thomas doubtless will have a story about he she would have drowned, if only she wasn't 40 miles inland at the time.

shearforce

shearforce wrote: »

unfortunately every Mary, Ann and Mick will be on now to tell us tales from way back when they nearly drowned

Have you Wednesday's Lotto numbers as well?

shearforce

ShamNNspace wrote: »

Was Kathyrn anywhere near???

different beach

Roger_007

shearforce wrote: »

unfortunately every Mary, Ann and Mick will be on now to tell us tales from way back when they nearly drowned

There definitely won’t be anyone on to tell us how they were nearly saved!

SeaFields

Swim sideways in a rip.....

Furze99

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Going by what the rescuer described, the beach sloped steeply away from several yards out.
I've nearly been caught by that, too.

Sounds more like a rip current - they went there for the waves and fun on body boards. But waves when they come in have to go back out and finding a line of least resistance, the water gathers and flows back outwards. Swimming sideways to shore would probably have helped him.

Dan Jaman

John_Rambo wrote: »

Shore dump.

I always wipe afterwards.

I'm very fussy which beaches I swim from. I don't like waves as I have to wear glasses in the water as I can see •nothing• without them these past years, and I don't like undertow, or steeply shelving shores. I like best calm clear fairly deep water. Years ago when I had better vision I lived swimming in slightly more challenging conditions.

Genghis

Would agree, Bunmahon is a dangerous beach. As is the next beach along, Annestown iirc.

BPKS

Anybody who would leave a kid go out on the ocean on an inflatable needs to have their kids taken off them. Gobsh1tes

John_Rambo

Dan Jaman wrote: »

I always wipe afterwards.

Sure, sure, sure.

They're not rip-tides on the beach, they're rip-currents.

Furze99

Hard to believe though that on a day like yesterday that there'd be no lifeguard on beaches like Bunmahon.

Ah - no blue flag - too much crap in the water from local sewage etc

Dan Jaman

Better Beaches of the Copper Coast.

Furze99

Furze99 wrote: »

Sounds more like a rip current - they went there for the waves and fun on body boards. But waves when they come in have to go back out and finding a line of least resistance, the water gathers and flows back outwards. Swimming sideways to shore would probably have helped him.

When my mother was in her 20s she was caught in a strong long rip in Bundoran, but she was always a calm swimmer and realising what was happening made her way out sideways and swam to shore gradually through a non-rip area.

bottlebrush

Bunmahon to be closed by 3.00

BPKS

She just dropped her phone into the sea

Dan Jaman

The tide is taking your phone away, missus.

SEPT 23 1989

you would be falling asleep listening to this

Every Irish person: "It's a hot sunny day, lets go to the beach!"
Irish Councils: "Lets pick an arbitrary date in the calendar when we will put life guards on the beach"

BPKS

He didn't come home that day.....................as he went on the absolute lash for 2 days