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INTERNATIONAL
#CHECHYNA: A suicide bomb killed five police officers in Grozny. [BBC News]
#HONG KONG: Pro-democracy protesters have been ordered to leave within hours, or face ‘serious consequences’.
#JAPAN: A high-speed crash left a Formula 1 driver with a serious head injury.
#MEXICO: A mass grave is being linked to the disappearance of 43 students.
#UNITED STATES: A first person to develop Ebola in the US is now fighting for his life. [Reuters]
#VATICAN: A meeting was held on reforming aspects of the Catholic Church.
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PARTING SHOT
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God rest both of them. Respect the sea. Wear a life preserver at all times and carry a means to communicate on your person. Preferably not a smart phone, the touch screen is next to impossible to use when there is a film of water on it. A traditional brick phone with big buttons in a dry bag is the job.
Madness going out there again, this time with tragic results. RIP
@Niamh Leahy: God rest them and all but incredibly selfish and ignorant to put peoples lives in risk again by going out to the same spot. No respect for the water or the rescuer!!
This is the same spot where 2 trawlers went down in the mid 70′s and nobody quite knows how they managed to sink. Apparently a very dodgy part of the water with strong currents. The locals don’t seem to go there at all and don’t visit the nearby Rathlin O’Birne island either.
Time for some type of basic competency in seamanship and possibly a licence requirement for small craft ownership. Too many inexperienced people on the water. RIP to both
@SquideyeMagpie: Try get people from Eastern Europe to comply! They’d laugh at you. They just dont see danger where we would.
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