Certain death or destruction ! This has gotta go ( nasty yellow dot
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Midway through a jump today
I looked down & noticed something in the water. Went back for a closer look & FFFFaaaaRRRkkkk
It was a jagged marker pole of some sort maybe 30cm accross that was only exposed in between waves.
It wasnt drifting either as i gave it a kick... it looked as if something had crashed into it, which would explain why it was just below the water line. I can see an accident waiting to happen - someone being ripped to shreds if they hit it / land on it or ripping the hull out of a yacht / pleasure craft.
I saw it at about 6:30pm which would make it a Fremantle tide height of .63 metres, a slightly higher tide & youd never no its there till you hit it ![]()
Does anyone know who to report this to
& has anyone else seen it ![]()
Cheers
Hey STW
I was a former skipper with Fremantle Sea Rescue and my son is now a skipper with them so I will pass this on to him, they have contacts with the Water Police, DPI, and Swan River Trust etc.
Finding it will give them something to do while they are on roster all weekend cruising the river waiting for something to happen.
I am not a regular kiter at PP but do get there occasionally and definitely wouldnt want to land on this by the sound of it.
Tie a float to it if you can . Prevention is better than the cure if you hit that thing or impaled on it. My mate VB hit a railway line with his board on our last trip only visible at low tide the next morning.
Thanks Tightlines
With the wind picking up
it probably will be very hard to see and was only just visible at that low tide height.
I'll try & look for it tonight and maybe tie a Poley to it
or a kook kiter
lol.
This is the offending railway line that Mal is speaking of, Poor rellie and I had a dusk sesh there the day before. A bit daunting to wake up the next morning and see what I'd hit.
Just imagine landing a move gone wrong on top of that![]()
While we are on about safety has anyone any contacts that can move the sign that is right in the middle of the launch area at Citibeach and also tell the life savers not to put signs exactly where we launch and land at Scarborough (Brighton).
Someone is going to get lofted and shredded apart on one of these angular poles or sharp signs sooner or later. They are &**^ dangerous!