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Swamping Safety Database
Details of incident 92
Swamping record
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| Date |
Sept 2004 |
| Location |
Gothenburg harbour |
| Water Temperature |
Unknown |
| Boat(s) involved |
8+ |
| Boat Construction |
oldish wooden eight, open construction |
| Outcome |
A women's eight swamped and sank - everybody rescued |
| Description |
After a race crews had quite a long wait to disembark on the
single pontoon and during this waiting period there were a number of bad
washes. A women's eight filled up and sank. Seven of them swam about 20
yards to the 4' high quay wall and managed to get ashore via a moored boat
with help from the numerous onlookers. One woman and the cox stayed with the
boat. |
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