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Swamping Safety Database

Details of incident 110

Swamping record

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Date May 1998
Location Albert Dock (London Docklands Regatta)
Water Temperature Unknown
Boat(s) involved 1x
Boat Construction Wooden Colley
Outcome All safe 
Description At the end of a Vet Single Sculls race my boat was full of water. I bailed out some of the water and then managed to scull the 50 yards or so to the boating pontoon, so no harm done. There were quite a lot of other swampings on that day.


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