Ces touristes ont ete totalement imprudent, mais la lenteur des secours dans un endroit aussi touristique fait honte a la France. Pas une barque ou zodiac dispo au Mont pour ce genre de sauvetage? Il a fallu que des quidams mettent leur propre vie en danger en nageant vers les victimes? Je suis content que ce soit bien fini, mais ca a ete plus de la chance qu'autre chose. T'imagine si il y avait eu un enfant dans le groupe?
For such historic and world famous tourist attraction I am sure they could stretch to a inflatable boat or two for just this type of scenario but then again all available inflatable boats are needed further up the coast to ferry illegals to the UK.
Not a drop of common sense or situational awareness. This is like when people try to pet wild animals, they always end up getting hurt and in need of rescue. And, they always, ALWAYS, have a child with them.
If I learnt anything is that when the locals leave the beach you need to leave too. Was at Dieppe beach had a thousand people at it so my group went swimming as well (was rather odd knowing there were war graves just 20 feet out in tanks at the bottom) anyways we were enjoying the cool water when we suddenly noticed the beach was empty and were like huh odd must really hate Canadian tourists, not one person was like hey fk faces get out of the water, the French are known to be jerks and sure enough that tide came in like stupid crazy fast one minute we like huh thats odd where is everyone to going oh man there's a drop off here and cant touch bottom and h the beach is getting far away wtf oh the tide oh fk. Swim. Like over 5 minutes went from a pleasant soak to a fight for our lives. Even a French cop was snikering at us and I wanted to punch him in the face like wtf France. Youd think there be a sign or something
This video highlights the most dangerous problem with rising tides is the current. Even if you're a strong swimmer, the swirling currents can take you all over the place, in an unpredictable fashion. You might think the tide is coming in, so the current will simply push you to shore, but this video shows that is evidently not the case, and in less than ten minutes the currents can change from nothing at all in waist deep water to a rushing current pulling you back out to sea.
El mundo está lleno de estúpidos que creen que las advertencias y avisos de peligro son para los demás. Como se creen muy listos piensan que ellos controlan. Los carteles que hay por todas partes, avisan que La marea de Le Mont Saint Michel sube muy rápido y que la gente no puede llegar a tierra cuando empieza a subir. Antes se decía que la marea era más rápida que un caballo galopando.
Strange there is no rescue boat available ?? This is certainly not first time .... do we really have to wait before people die before organizing and acting accordingly ???
Kind of different but kind of the same. All of us people around here get to read about the people who want to pet a wild buffalo in Yellowstone. Sometimes they just go for a little air time, other times they get a horn.
Secondo me meritavano di rimanere dove erano,in fin dei conti erano consapevoli di cosa sarebbe avvenuto e,se non lo erano,motivo in più perché avessero pagato la loro ignoranza
I used to be a baitdigger in the UK Have seen this many many times People from city's and other areas just don't know the nature of the seas Had to help many people get back to safe Worse probs are spring tides and horse shoe sand banks were the tide creeps in behind u I've been caught out in the past with water up to my neck Takes a lot to be really good at reading tides all year round
Same thing across the pond in Nova Scotia, We'd be at the ocean, see some goofball tourists wander out DEEP into the mud flats like "oh it's it so magical"...
Bait digger from le reddit here. I have dug many a pit in my time and inexperienced users who spend too much time in their so-called real life fall for it every time. It's sad.
