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Maybe not .. if you're stood on the bank looking for signs of life you can see a wide area, if you're in the water you can see a smaller area.
If anyone should have been in the water it should be the two fisherman they were first on the scene ... if they managed to save the sister then they would have been the first to have a chance of saving the boy.
I imagine several minutes would have passed before the officers got to the banks of the water, only takes a few minutes to drown.
What I wanna know is where were the parents when all this happened?
If swimming was prohibited in that place, it casts a very different light on things. When somebody falls into a pond, or a river, then sure, you might feel an obligation to render what assistance you can. The PCSOs, arriving at a scene where youths were in the habit of regularly ignoring warnings about swimming there, and learning that such a youth, as far as they knew, had disappeared beneath the water some minutes earlier, might very well have been reluctant to risk themselves too. The police authority, it appears to me, are trying to be tactful about this affair, because a boy has died, but in private, they may very well be wondering when the parents of these children are going to take some responsibility for not warning their children away from the 'pond' in the first place?
Flooded mine shafts are extremely dangerous places, usually bottomed by quick sand, standing in one despite it not looking very deep is very stupid indeed. This one might not have been so dangerous, but there will be a reason why the anglers and PCSO's were reluctant to wade in.
Go on the BBC website:
- large lake, about the size of a football field
- former quarry, very very deep and quicksand at the bottom
- hadn't been seen for quarter of an hour before PCSOs arrived. Where would you start?
I think it's another case of people expecting the services to be super people.
Given that the boy had been submerged for some time, and nobody could give an accurate positioning of where he sank, any "brave" jumping into the lake would have been futile, pointless, and downright dangerous. It's not like he was 5 feet from the bank waving his arms.
Without the correct equipment the PCSOs could have died too, and I fail to see how putting someone in a dangerous position for little benefit would do anyone any good.
Just wish other people would pick up on this and not just the headline. The Stun has been particularly virilent in it's ill-informed waffle.
I should lose my job apparently because of 2 pcso's god-knows how many miles away.