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A MAN WHO was attempting to make his way to Ireland on a 6 foot beach blow up dinghy has been rescued by a passing dive vessel.
Yesterday, passing boats raised concerns with the coastguard after seeing a man in a dinghy with two paddles approximately 2.7 nautical miles south of Durdle Door, Dorset.
The coastguard state that he was using one paddle “as a mast accompanied by a plastic sheet as a sail, and the other used as a rudder to steer”. They also said that he had a limited amount of food and drink aboard.
A dive vessel, transiting the area at the time, approached the dinghy to assess the situation. Portland Coastguard was informed that the occupant of the dinghy did not require any assistance, but after finishing their diving operations, the dive vessel returned to the scene and was able to recover the man from the sea.
At 8.30pm, the coastguard rescue team, police and ambulance were awaiting his arrival on shore and it’s reported he had to be treated for a high degree of sunburn. It later transpired that the man had began his journey at 9am that morning.
John Braisher, Watch Officer at Portland Coastguard said:
This man was extremely lucky to be found when he was. With no suitable communications equipment, limited life saving equipment and inadequate food and drink resources for his passage to Ireland, the outcome could have been very different.If you’re planning to head out to sea, the key is to be well prepared. Inflatable dinghies, such as this, are unsuitable and not recommended for coastal passages of this nature.
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And this is how the halawa’s were able to get most of the footage taken down too .
I dont think that’s accurate. The ruling is that a result for the footage wouldn’t be shown – if you have a site with the footage in question playing on it Google cannot interfere with that, it may not list your site in the search results.
Having said that,your site would appear if you searched Google.com
Could you not use a different search engine to find info…..(shudders at the thought)
I’m so glad I had my teenage years in the 90′s, no incriminating evidence on the internet :)-
I tried to play the right to be forgotten card when I missed my girlfriends birthday this year, didn’t work out so well. Damn you Google!!
Ridiculous ruling exposing how far behind technology the law is
…and the snakes slither for cover
What’s needed isn’t a right to be forgotten. What’s needed is a right to have actions deemed irrelevant after time. Much as we cannot discriminate as to age, sex or race, maybe we should add “old mistakes” to that list.
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