When will people learn.....

Bet she had a crush on the RNLI Skipper... She's going back next year to do the same!!!

Sorry but I am finding some of these responses slightly smug and self-righteous. Yes, someone who lives by the sea and goes fishing regularly understands about tides. They’re also likely to understand the local conditions that mean a spring tide can in some places can come in faster than you can walk but a visitor who lives in a big city won’t know that so it is beholden on us better informed people to make sure people are informed of the risks and if necessary told what they can and cannot do. You cannot rely on mythical ‘common sense’: it does not exist.

Maybe she has a crush on the lifeboat men. It does happen, as as ex fireman I know it happened with us. Small fire, 999, same crew attend and get chatted up.

SP900308's posting at #4 prompts me to add that the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) is a very worthy charitable organisation which receives no government funding and depends very largely on donations. Furthermore, as those who saw the recent TV programmes about the RNLI on BBC1 will have learned, the vast majority of its people are volunteers - the aquatic equivalent of members of civilian mountain rescue teams in the UK. At times their rescue work during adverse sea and weather conditions exposes them to considerable risk. One very notable example of this was the disaster in which the lifeboat and all 8 crew members from Penlee in Cornwall were lost while trying to rescue the crew of a stricken coaster during December 1981. At times those who lead RNLI's rescue missions have to make dynamic risk assessments using, among various aspects, their local knowledge and understanding of conditions to make difficult judgements about the balance between i) protecting themselves and their colleagues and ii) making successful rescues. Graham B

Mersey is also tidal, hence the need for the ship canal to that place down the road...

Actually there is a huge variation in tides around the world. The Baltic has hardly any appreciable tides: the water just slops about a bit. in some places the tides are massive and can be quick. This depends on things like slope of the beach , the direction it facing and wind direction. No, what I was concerned was about the overall mocking tone and I wondered if you applied the same language when giving inductions to staff in your own workplaces: "Well the hazards on a building site are obvious" and "Just apply your common sense and you'll be alright", "You should know about safe use of ladders anyway" etc. etc. Just a thought

Pikey, For what it's worth I thought you were bang on the nail I live as far from the sea as is possible in the uk but was familiar with tide tables by the age of 10 I would imagine

I know the mersey is tidal but it is a river and I said I don't live by the sea.