By Adrian Rutherford – 22 March 2014 The angling tragedy which has left one man dead, a second missing and a third fighting for his life may have been caused by a freak squall.The men, all from Co Armagh, were on a fishing trip to Lough Ree in the Irish midlands when their boat capsized in bad weather.
Eyewitnesses described how a freak squall roared over the water shortly after the group set out.
The dead man has been named as construction worker David Warnock, who was 27 and from Richhill. His funeral will be held at Mullaghbrack Church of Ireland outside Markethill on Monday.
The missing man is Daryl Burke (30) from the Portadown area. A father-of-three, his wife is due to give birth to their fourth child in the next fortnight.
A third man, John Trimble (60), who is from Markethill, is critically ill in hospital.
They were part of a six-man expedition from the Portadown Pikers angling club who left Hodson Bay, in the south-west corner of Lough Ree, at 3pm on Thursday.
Little and Broad Haven RNLI lifeboat was launched on Saturday (March 8) after reports of three teenagers in difficulty in the sea north of Broad Haven at Devils Bridge.
Milford Haven Coastguard requested the launch of the Little and Broad Haven RNLI lifeboat after a call from a concerned teenager, stating his three friends were in difficulty in the sea.
The incident happened after the four teenagers (two male, two female) had been sunbathing at Devils Bridge. One of the girls had been washed off the rocks by a freak wave.
After witnessing the girl struggling to make her way out of the water, two of the party jumped into the water whilst the other phoned 999.
The volunteer lifeboat crew were quickly on scene and could see three people struggling to climb out of the sea and onto the rocks.
There was quite a large swell at the time and the crew managed to quickly get into Devils Bridge and drop a crew member off to assess the casualties.
After an examination, the crew decided to take the two girls straight to Broad Haven as medical attention was required.
Broad Haven Coastguards who were on scene escorted the two other casualties straight to Broad Haven to be assessed by paramedicsSo all's fine after all is done. It's all in a day's work. Thanks to and may God bless those brave volunteers!
Woman dies after freak wave washes her into Cascais sea
A 60-year-old woman who was swept into the sea by a freak wave from a beach in Estoril on Monday afternoon has died
The incident happened at around 3.40pm Sunday afternoon but by the time local rescueservices arrived at the spot the woman had already been pulled alive from the rough sea by two locals after being knocked over by a wave and dragged into the water.
She was taken to Cascais hospital in a serious condition with signs of what was described as pre-drowning. But she did not survive the ordeal and died during the early hours of the next morning.
This is the seventh death so far this winter relating to people drowning after being washed away by freak waves.
However, the case where six university students drowned off Meco Beach near Sesimbra has attracted the attention of PJpolice detectives.
The students’ deaths were initially believed to have been a tragic accident caused after they were swept to sea by a freak wave, but the PJ’s summoning suggests suspicions that a crime may have occurred, with some sections of the media indicating the tragedy was the result of initiation rituals performed by students from the private Lusofona University.
The scene was pretty epic at breakfast on Saturday at Moby Dick Restaurant in Santa Barbara, Calif.
The restaurant is located quite literally right on the ocean. A winter storm in the entire Southern California region generated waves so strong that they shattered a picture window in the dining room, causing salt water to barrel in and customers to flee their seats.
“Great front row seats for the much needed storm in our area,” wrote surfer Jill Freeland in a caption below the video she captured and posted on YouTubeGo visit the article where there's the video. Here's the rest of the story in the article:
As the clip begins, a cellphone records what appears to be gradually-building surf. Seconds later, a wave heaves against thewindow glass , breaking it, and causing chaos—but well-managed chaos in a wonderful “keep-calm-and-carry-on” sense.
Another spectator who was on the scene told NBC Los Angeles that diners and the wait staff initially froze for a split second. Then, they quickly and efficiently gathered themselves and evacuated the dining area.
Amazingly, a city official told the NBC station that no one was hurt in the incident.
Moby Dick is one of a handful of restaurants on Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara. According to Yelp reviewers, the place usually lacks ambience “other than the view.” While the food is “overpriced,” the seafood is “fresh” and the clam chowder is “pretty darn good.”
City officials have since closed the whole waterfront area until further notice.That's quite a dramatic video that was captured.Well worth to watch it. This case even got into the networks' national news broadcast with a small part of the video as part of the weather story. Now this is one wave case that the words of freak, rogue, monster, or giant were not used. Instead they came up a new adjective: gnarly, uhmm, gnarly wave -- probably it will not get into the scientific literature. What ever adjectives you choose to use, that unexpected wave broken through the restaurant picture window can be considered to be a freaque wave!
MUSKEGON, MI – Take a peak outside – you won’t be disappointed.Ugh! Winter sticks around a little longer yet!
You may have forgotten over the past winter months but the glowing orange thing is our sun. Don’t look at it too long.
Unfortunately,Saturday’s sunny morning is not forecast to be the end of the winter weather and the dangerous driving associated with it.
The Michigan State Police warn that roadways in the Muskegon County area are still wet and icy.
Temperatures Saturday, Feb. 22 are expected to top out at 30 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. A west-southwest wind will blow 18 to 20 miles per hour, with gusts as high as 29 mph.
Saturday night, skies will be partly cloudy, with a low temperature near 16 degrees. The wind will continue to blow, but without gusts.
On Sunday, skies will again be partly sunny, with a high temperature near 23 degrees, according to the weather service forecast. A west wind will blow 18 to 21 mph, with gusts up to 31 mph.
Starting Sunday night, there is a 40 percent chance of snow showers after 8 p.m. A west-northwest wind will blow 20-22 mph, with gusts again up to 30 mph.
There is a chance of snow every day from Monday through Wednesday next week, according to the National Weather Service.
“Everyone was afraid of rogue waves, flu pandemics, texting while driving. Everyone said what they thought and everyone was wrong. Even the people who said they didn’t know anything were wrong. … There was nothing left to say, no option left but to keep talking. And so they did.”Hmm, can it be applied to the current state of science in general? I have never thought of freaque waves are in the company of flu pandemics and texting while driving. I still don't think they belong together. Is that what people think of freaque waves?
The couples were enjoying a love-filled Valentine's Day meal when storms blew out windows at the Marine Restaurant in Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire.
Worried eaters were taken upstairs as waves pushed in to the restaurant
Emergency services including coastguards, firefighters and the Army were called in to save the stranded lovers at around 10pm on Friday night.
James McCrossan, a chef at the restaurant, said: "The wind was just smashing against the windows. It almost looked like the windows were bending
"The outside of the windows started smashing. There was glass everywhere, it wasn't safe for anyone."It's like I never seen before and, touch wood, I hope never to see it again."
The couples were eventually saved by six-wheel-drive Army vehicles as the sea began to submerge cars in the car park according to reports.
Karen Bosman, from Lymington Coastguard, told BBC Breakfast said she had never seen weather like it before.
She told BBC Breakfast: "When our coastguard got there, they were just making sure everybody was safe when the first-floor windows were also hit by a freak wave and shingle, and those windows were also stoved in by the weather.
She added: "The sustained ferocity I have never seen in my experience. Last night we were getting gusts of 69 knots while this was occurring, and 69 knots is hurricane-force winds.
"I have never seen that in the Solent before."
(Newser) – An 85-year-old man on a cruise ship in the English Channel was killed after what the ship's operator calls a "freak wave" smashed into the vessel, reports the BBC. Several others were injured, including a woman who was airlifted off the Marco Polo, operated by Cruise & Maritime Voyages. Witnesses say the wave struck early in the afternoon, with most of the injuries the result of shattered windows in the dining room, reports CNN. The ship was on its way back from a 42-day voyage to the Azores.
TWO friends are feared to have drowned when one apparently went to help the other after they were struck by freak waves and 130kph winds while walking along an exposed west Cork peninsula.
A major search operation off the Sheep's Head peninsula yesterday resulted in one body being recovered. The search for the second person is ongoing.
The men – named locally as Dutch national Roland Decker (32) and a 31-year-old German friend – flew into Cork last week from Amsterdam for a break in Kilcrohane village.
Mr Decker's mother owns a holiday property just outside the village. She spoke to them by phone on Saturday and learned of their plan to walk to a local lighthouse, where it is understood they hoped to take photos of the stormy seas.
Mrs Decker became concerned when she was unable to contact her son on Saturday evening and again on Sunday.
A FISHERMAN was plucked from the water with serious injuries after being tossed into the sea when a freak wave caused his boat to capsize off Victoria's coast.
The 25-year-old Rowville man was rescued at Point Nepean by a passing crayfishing boat operator, who took him to Queenscliff where they met Water Police, this morning.
Officers administered first aid to him before he was flown to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
His friend, a 36-year-old Mornington man who was captain of the 4.5m tinny, was washed up on shore near Cheviot Beach at the tip of the Peninsula, with cuts and bruises.
He was winched to safety by the police Air Wing helicopter in a dramatic rescue about 9.40am, before being transported to Rosebud Hospital.
Victoria's Water Police have been busy in recent weeks with rescues as more fishermen and boaters take to the water amid the warmer weather.The article by Rebekah Cavanagh tells another boat capsize case for the record! Boats in the nearshore area are vulnerable for being capsized by waves, was it always caused by a freaque wave? No one really knows! This time it was specified by the news writer as by a freaque wave. Some time reporters choose to use a different term. It's all some sort of nearshore waves, some large, some larger, are they freaque? Who knows? Since we don't have a firm definition, it's not even in the eyes of the beholder, it's just whatever the reporter feels like to call it! I guess the only thing that all cases have in common is it usually not anticipated by the victim when it happened. The unexpectedness, some time may be just taken for granted, is all that figured or not figured in the uncertainty -- happens out there day in and day out. Facts of life? Science does not seem to be able to do anything tangible about it!!
A man swept to his death in Spain saw the wave that killed him for only a split-second before he was washed away, chilling video of his final moments reveals.Please visit the news site to see the "chilling video" for details -- the waves in the video are truly frightening!
An unnamed 43-year-old Senegalese man was walking on the pier in the port of Ondarroa when he was caught out by a freak wave in stormy weather just before 11am local time on Tuesday, El Pais reports.
The man appears to be unaware of his danger as a wall of whitewater explodes over the top of the concrete pier, the video shows.
He then turns to run as tonnes of water come crashing down but it is too late.
Spain's Red Cross reportedly launched a rescue boat to save the victim from the raging seas but he was declared dead after CPR failed to revive him.Another happening, another tragedy! This one just appears to be unavoidable when all of a sudden "a wall of whitewater explodes over the top of the concrete pier." All kinds of things happen in nature, unexpected, unpredicted, as well as unprepared, it is just an act of nature caught people on the pier without warning. It can happen any time, any place, somehow!
AN ANGLER who is feared to have been swept out to sea by a freak wave has been described as a loving son, brother and uncle who will be sorely missed.
Rescuers searching for Michael Bindon after he was swept off the rocks in Polzeath on Wednesday have called off a search operation and are now waiting to recover his body.
The 23-year-old from Efford lovedSo the happening seems following the similar script of "swept out to sea" from the rocks as shown in the picture. We know at least he was doing what he loves. May the beloved young angler rest in peace.fishing and would often go several times a week.
Towering waves which pounded the Westcountry yesterday have left trail of destruction, battering historic harbours and washing whole beaches away.
Some of the region’s tourist hotspots were left counting the cost after 30foot-high waves pummelled seafront businesses.
Gigantic waves swept away the balcony of a popular beach-side restaurant at Trevaunance Cove, near St Agnes.
At Porthmeor in St Ives, beach huts were wrecked and decking for the cafe overlooking the beach suffered substantial damage.
Meanwhile the beach at Whitsand Bay in South East Cornwall resembled a lunar landscape after its golden sands were swallowed by the storm.
The winds, whipped up by a powerful storm in the Atlantic, hit the Isles of Scilly first where harbourmaster Dale Clark described giant waves washing over the quay.
“A thick wall of water was washing over the entire quay. People on the islands were saying they had never seen anything like it,” he said.
Mr Clark witnessed the ferocity of the storm from his office on the quay as it was too dangerous to leave.
“The entire building was vibrating and shaking.
“You could hear the roar of the waves as they washed over the wall. The whole quay was just awash with breaking waves.”
The tempest had left the quay, a lifeline for the islanders, severely damaged, he said, and work was now under way to make it usable. At Portreath harbour, an iconic stone hut has been smashed to pieces by huge waves.
The century-old structure could not withstand the battering of the monster swell estimated to have reached more than 30 feet in height, with its full force felt after almost 100 tonnes of the harbour wall fell into the sea.
An iconic natural rock formation shaped like a giant doughnut was destroyed by freak 30ft waves at Porthcothan Bay, which is famed for its picture-postcard beach and caves, including a massive stone archway.
But the ferocious storms battered the beloved landmark and it collapsed into the sea.
Locals say their idyllic beach, nestled between Falmouth and Padstow on the North Cornwall coast, will never be the same.
Resident Tamsin Swindells, 39, said everyone was devastated by the loss of the stone archway, known locally as The Anchor or Jan Leverton’s Rock.
She said: “It’s just a pile of rocky rubble now – it looks like a demolition site. The beach just won’t be the same without it; it’s completely changed.”
The damage was not confined the coastline with hundreds of properties across the region succumbing to storm damage. More than 100 residents remain trapped in their village after floods have left all access roads under three feet of water.
Muchelney, which lies in between Taunton and Yeovil, has been cut off for four days after the roads flooded.
Residents can now only able to leave the village by boat – the water is so deep not even a tractor can make it through.This article depicts an unbelievable horror happening entitled "Huge waves leave region coastline changed forever" was published in Jan. 7, 2014 issue of Exeter Express and Echo by Lyn Barton and Toby Meyjes. the estimated 30' high waves is not particularly high from comparing with other possible large waves, but the devastation clearly much more extensive than many large waves can cause. The local residents are admirably reacted with reasonable calm, took it all in a stride. What else can people react in a seemingly an act of God??? May God bless them from here on.
Mother Nature soon proved her power to a woman who appeared to taunt an incoming wave with a series of hip-wiggling dance moves.and this details:
The woman, who it is believed was not seriously hurt by her experiences, no doubt regretted delaying her exit from the Spanish beach. Bypassers watched as the tidal surge swept her off her feet at Sardinero Beach in Santander.
Her head is visible bobbing up and down along the waves as she is swept along the beach, with one passer by vainly offering her an umbrella. Despite the apparent gravity of the footage, she had a lucky escape and emerged from the water with just bruises, it is understood.What can we learn from this story? Do NOT ever attempt to taunt Mother Nature's nature power, of course! If the same thing were happening all over again, anything can happen in a swept off, the dancing lady may not fare as lucky as this time again!
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 18 — A woman drowned while two men are still missing when they were overcome by giant waves while bathing at Pantai Kerachut, Teluk Bahang here today. Southwest district police chief Supt Mohd Hatta Mohd Zain said in the incident at 4.17 pm, the three were among 24 workers of a factory in Prai, who had gone to the beach for a bath after participating in a character-building camp at Taman Negara Teluk Bahang. “Five were overcome by the huge waves but two, both women, were saved by members of the public; they are receiving treatment at the Penang hospital,” he told reporters here today.What a tragedy when they simply "gone to the beach for a bath" and were overcame by a huge wave! Apparently the wave was unexpected and unpredicted. So a huge wave can come without notice even on a nice peaceful tourist beach! Just looking at a picture like the above, one can hardly imagining a "huge wave" coming. But it can happen! Count our blessings when it did not happen when we are out there walking on a nice beach. Never, ever, let your caution and guard down!
Walkers and thrill seekers using coastal areas in Arbroath are being urged to take extra care in the recent stormy weather which has brought with it huge waves.
Winter storms, strong wind and exceptionally high tides have seen the local coastline take a battering with large waves, which are strong enough to pull people out to sea.
On Thursday, Danger Point at the Fit O’ The Toon was particularly bad hit but despite signs warning people to stay clear in bad conditions, it didn’t stop several youngsters from running towards the waves and playing dodge.
One concerned eye witness at Danger Point on Thursday said: “I was quite concerned to see a group of young teens put themselves at risk by jumping in and out the waves as they came to shore.
“There have been several deaths with innocent souls being swept away by the power of rogue waves in the past few days, across the UK shoreline.
“There are clear warnings to people using the Point in stormy weather but can’t help worrying that one of these days an innocent game of dodge will result in a local youngster losing their life.
“It’s perhaps time for the local authorities to highlight this during these stormy times.”
The local RNLI crew had to brave the stormy conditions before Christmas when they were called out on a shout on December 23 in high seas to rescue a vessel in distress.
And an Arbroath RNLI spokesman explained: “The message we would like to put across is that the stormy conditions can be extremely dangerous and we would urge anyone going to the coast to take extra care accordingly.
“In particular avoid exposed places where large waves could easily sweep you off your feet.
“In other parts of the country two people have tragically died recently in separate incidents having been swept out to sea. This sadly demonstrates just how dangerous these conditions can be.”
Meanwhile Ross Greenhill from the local HM Coastguard added: “HM Coastguard would like to remind the public that whilst the sea can be a spectacle it can also be extremely dangerous often with little warning.
“In the last few weeks there have been a number of deaths attributed to individuals who were too close to the waves during severe weather.
“The risk is not just being swept away by waves but is also what is in the water and being struck by this could lead to serious injury.
“Our officers along with lifeboat crews and firefighters have to risk their lives in order to protect you if you get into difficulty.”
