Dinghy Danger

7:24 PM Mon 21 Jun 2010 GMT

'Your dinghy - She looks so innocent, but don’t underestimate how dangerous she can be' .

When used the wrong way, dinghies can be dangerous vessels, as many incidents over the year have demonstrated. This was underlined again last week when Falmouth Coastguard were called upon to rescue five children, aged from four to eight when they were blown out to sea. However, some of the previous incidents were more serious... In November, 2007, two very experienced sailors from Bawdsey on the east coast of England set out in their dinghy to their yacht Marlin for a weekend voyage. In an incident which will never be fully explained, their dinghy was later washed up on the ...

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by Nancy Knudsen

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