Re: Crash in Worcester

On 10 Mar, 23:31, Carl Douglas <c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David McC wrote:
On 11 Mar, 10:56, "David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk>
wrote:

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Does anyone have any background on this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/7286391.stm

Man injured in rowing collision
A 50-year-old man had to be airlifted to hospital after a collision
involving two rowing boats in Worcestershire.
He was in an eight-man vessel such as those "used in the Oxbridge boat
race" on the River Severn by Grimley, the ambulance service said.

The victim, whose foot was trapped, broke his ankle.

None of the other rowers were injured in the incident close to Camp
Lane on Saturday, a spokesman for the ambulance service added.

A bit more info athttp://www.worcesternews.co.uk/display.var.2104730.0.0..php
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David Biddulph
Rowing web pages athttp://www.biddulph.org.uk/

Isn't it a pity the accident was described as "freak". There are
enough of them not to be "freak" with the implication that they are so
rare it's not worth trying to fix the cause of them.

With all of the reporting on the Drysdale vs Waddell races there was
only one article where I did not have issue with the facts and
impression given by context.

Taniwha

Too right!  Freak is the first word used in the process of ducking
responsibility & burying an incident.  Actually, there's nothing
remotely freakish or even particularly unusual about coxes steering into
other boats.  Most worrying is the familiar tendency of coxes to freeze
in the face of impending disaster instead of open their mouths &
shouting warnings: it's bad timing to get an attack of stage fright when
someone is about to be maimed.  It should be an early part of all cox
instruction to open the mouth wide & shout when trouble looms, just as
it should be an early part of rowing coaching to show crews how to hold
it hard.

Rowing accidents are no more unpredictable "freak" events than it is
only "freak" waves that wash twits off sea walls on windy days.  Every
so often, if you don't keep wits about you, a wholly predictable
statistical nemesis will catch you with your freaking trousers down.

This sounds like a particularly nasty injury from a collision that ought
to have been prevented.  I'm sure we all wish the victim a full & swift
recovery,

As an aside:
As is increasingly the case, the Fire Brigade account in the Worcester
report reads a bit like they'd just won the battle of el Alamein.
"Cutting equipment" tells us nothing about what they actually did & is
mere jargon.  My Victorinox penknife would probably have been suitable
"multifunctional" cutting equipment in that situation, but penknife
sounds amateurish & insufficiently "technical" (another jargon term
these days).  It'd make better sense to say, "We cut the boat away to
free his injured leg".  Why can't the guys chill out a bit & speak
English instead?  I guess it's part of the insidious trend for everyone
to be a so-called "professional" these days & to seem to have used all
the right tools, terms & procedures.

Cheers -
Carl
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Ah Carl it's all about 'ealf n safety' init! They have to use, and be
seen to be using the appropriate equipment. I suppose Worcester should
be lucky they got the man to the bank and weren't stuck in the river
because if the firefighters were not trained in water rescues they may
not have tried for fear of being punished. Look at the case recently
of a 20 year volunteer fireman who resigned having been disciplined
for rescuing a girl from a cliff without the proper equpment(I think
from memory), or the 2 Community Support Officers who stood by and
watched a boy drown because they weren't trained in water
rescues....I'll stop now before my blood completely boils.........
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