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I know it looks dramatic, but if you know Porthcawl you would know that where they are is pretty well safe. The waves shown high in the air are about 60 yards away and look close because of the forshortening effect of the camera angle. The lifeboat station is about 20ft away to the left of the people on the pier but out of shot. I would not surprise me if it was not the lifeboat men themselves. The beep and "news" makers of course would not spoil a gas lighting exercise by pointing that out. Misinform by word or deed is their motto.
Got it. The pier shown in the "news" item is indeed of the RNLI pier in Porthcawl. Which has been closed off to the public since being damaged by storm Barra earlier in the year. You can see that there is scaffolding erected to do the repairs and the men on the pier are part of the very experienced repair team doing the work. They were likely trying to secure valuable equipment and ensure the scaffolding diid not break loose. Hmm. I don't blame anyone for calling them out. They were not given the facts.
pat, I commented on that on another thread and said I suspected zoom lenses and low vantage points made things seem a lot closer than they really are, like those photos of people lying packed together on beaches who turn out to be yards apart when you see them from higher up.
The ones we can actually see in the photo don't seem to be getting terribly wet.
The ones we can actually see in the photo don't seem to be getting terribly wet.
tomus, I don't want to detract from anything Togo's said, if you look at this photo
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the RNLI station is virtually inland; the lighthouse, which you can see in the second photo in the OP link, looks a good quarter-mile away or more. I'd back the locals to know how much danger they were in .
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the RNLI station is virtually inland; the lighthouse, which you can see in the second photo in the OP link, looks a good quarter-mile away or more. I'd back the locals to know how much danger they were in .
