Coastal Safety by The Coastal Survival School | TAOutdoors

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Whether spending the day at the beach, going on a dog walk, or foraging for wild food, coastal safety is paramount. It is important that you understand the dangers of the sea. In this video, Fraser Christian from the Coastal Survival School gives you some very important tips on what to think about when heading to the beach. Not only could you be putting your life at risk, but also the lives of others that try to save you should you get into a difficult situation where you need saving. Please be safe when at the sea!

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hi I'm Fraser Chris Jim from the coastal survival school I'm down on the beach in West Dorset today to make a short video on coastal safety but we need to know that the sea is not just a playground it is a wild environment I'm obviously concerned about people losing their lives at sea i'm also really concerned about the people that have to go and then save those people and put their own lives in danger i'm going to give some information in this video that is going to save your life and hopefully protect their lives as well ok so the first thing we want to do when we go to a beach is look around see if there's signs on the beach where you are that possibly identify any dangers and here's a list of hazards and restrictions be aware of large waves and strong currents when swimming in the sea but the sea can change any moment ok the wind is nice and calm now if the wind suddenly picks up is going to push all of that water over off the beach or on to the beach and one of the classic ones to do with people getting lost and it's well documented and I've even heard about people doing it one day and getting rescued and then the second day and then the third day and that's inflatables okay flickable boats Laila's great fun to paddle off but if the wind turns and blows offshore okay you're going to get blown foot right out to sea it's really hard to paddle against the wind unless you're in a professional crack and you know what you're doing and professional kayakers and people who take to the water normally wear life rat life jackets they normally have safety equipment with them unless we're able to signal for rescue and possibly you've got a mobile phone if you've checked you've got signal you may be able to call the Coast Guard and to call the Coast Guard you need to dial 999 exactly the same if you're going to call the police or the fire service you will get asked what service do you require you will ask for the Coast Guard first thing I'm going to do if I'm on my own I'm heading off somewhere as I'm going to write a small note leave on the Chi of them in a car park there's no one there or going to speak to the car park attendant person the local pub the person at the ice cream parlor and in tell them where I'm going so we've walked down onto the beach and the first thing I've had for is the safety sign so going back to what we were talking about earlier with our location okay we noted that we were at Compton beach but on this sign there's also a Pacific marker location I'm right at the top there you can see it says sign location 12 because if we would have to tell somebody where we were I mean we may not be the person in danger we may need to call the Coast Guard we may see someone that's being blown away and just like in first aid what you don't want to do is endanger your life to try and save somebody else's so you may try and jump in the sea to save those again lechon Olympic swimmer it would not be recommended but the top here you can see it says beware strong currents we wear steep shelving beaches you will not be able to fight against the weather and nature and especially the tides unless you're a super strong athlete swimmer okay you do not want to be going in any where it says strong tides if you get it wrong and you get caught in a tight race whether it be a rip tide coming out from the middle of a bay remember the water has to go somewhere once it's coming to the beach it was ever directional water's going it's going to want to take you with it and unless you can swim out to the side of that will you wait till it goes back the other way so on this Beach we're gonna have the waves coming in and then you end the current coming back out hit him what it says that they're the steep shelving Beach so the power of the waves are coming in as I said earlier the hitting the shelving Beach and having to come back I underneath so you must go with that so if you're lucky you'll come in on a wave and you'll be able to get out of the sea if you time it wrong and you don't you didn't get into the beach the walls going to be going back out again but pulling from underneath subscribe tendency to pull you down as well as backwards okay you're going to have to swim backwards or let yourself drift backwards with it okay what happens then to people is if they don't know this they start to panic okay we start to try and fight naturally against the direction the Seas pulling on which may often be

to see and you want to get back onto the beach okay so you start to panic and fight against this power of the sea quite quickly you become tired and aware the reward was often cold especially in this country Energy starts to become depleted you have your extremities a measure of trying to swim all of your body heat is being drawn out of your body because your lips stretched out we're starting to use energy trying to fight against this you become really tired and at that point you are completely at the mercy of the sea and you will end up going where it wants to take you which as I said isn't often on to the beach so if you do find yourself in the current to remember you can't fight against it you have to go with it if you find yourself getting carried out to sea okay quite often the Riptide the only way you can get out of that is to try and swim to the side of it okay if you can swim to the side of it the best thing you can do and this is what we get talking the sea survival situation which luckily we're hopefully wearing a life jacket at the time okay you're going to need try and pull your knees up into your body and your arms a pinch your body okay I'm float with your head I with one hand possibly covering your face so the sea doesn't smash your face and drain you this is a lot easier if you've got a life jacket on okay wearing a life jacket it's not because we think oh we're definitely gonna go into danger so it's not an excuse to not have one on when you at the sea everybody carries a spare wheel in their car we don't always expect to get a puncher carrying certain safety items and if you do engage in anything like a loyal oh okay or an airbed something he's going to float and possibly get blown out to sea you should have a life jacket on there are other things that we need to consider on we're going to cover that in the rest of the video so what else is on this board we need to be aware about and this is something that is generic wherever you go in the world whenever you engage in with the ocean it says there beware of the tides tied to something that happen every day of the year everywhere in the world and that caused by the effect of gravity on the moon and what happens is as we get closer and further away to the moon it sucks and pause the wall trade as it sucks it all up when it lets go of it has to let it all poor back in so maybe you can think of it like that okay so ty comes in and I and that's every single day I've been walking around exposed headlands before and been rather concerned seen someone walking off round a headland that I know in a couple of hours is going to have to see coming up against the rocks and not be able to come back and say into them are you sure you're okay to be able to get to the next Beach tides coming in and they said to me this is completely true will the tide come back in today the tide comes back in every day okay it comes in and out it comes in and out at different levels and this is to do with neat than spring tides the most important thing to remember first of all there it will come in and out every day though okay after that know that those things called spring and neap tides the spring tides don't just happen in the spring they happen around every single full moon and every single new me and the biggest part of that tight is generally just after the new or forming this is when there's the largest effect or the most effect of gravity on the earth and sea and it pushes and pulls the co its greatest lamps okay this is great when we wanna do stuff like coastal foraging we want to get down to the rocks and the reefs we want lots of beach x based but this is also when there's going to be the most amount of water traveling in and out as well okay so where you are going to go into the sea that is when there's going to be the strongest hides the neat tighter always on the first quarter or the third quarter so in the moon's about half you can see half of the new that's where it's going to be the least effect and it's going to be the least amount of water traveling in a night okay it's really important to learn about tides where'd you find out about tides going internet you're typing where you're going okay today I'm acog din beach or typing kogda beach toyed times it may not have it to this Beach so I'd look for the next largest pull or harbor so that maybe west bay or it may say Weymouth so you look at the times are available online you can go to local fishing shops we can buy them online as books and I like to have a book with me Mike it I've got little books with reference the times but you need to find out when they're happening now they are only a prediction okay their own your prediction of going by the moon other things that going to affect these tide heights are going to be the wind and the weather high and low pressures going to push will let the sea rise up in its height the wind is going to be really apparent don't head off found a headland low tide and think are there's five or ten meters of clear beach to walk rain we're going to be okay as long as we get back round here at low tide and we don't wait to the Holy tied off see when the waters in we're going to easily be able to safely walk background this headland you may have walked off for a picnic or something but if the wind picks up I starts to blow unsure suddenly this Beach that you have loads of space to walk rain is going to become possibly covered by water as the wind pushes all the sea on shore and what can quite quickly happen is your lovely little path that you have ran the rocks to get through even through the rocks and lovely sandy patches okay are going to be covered in water the winds it's going to be blown the sea in smashing against the rocks and your point of home or your point of return is going to be cut off and statistically loads of people have to be rescued for simply being cut off by the tides so we've come to the point where the sea meets the land but obviously not the moments I'm sat on the beach there's no water angry but here it's just where the headland starts okay and here along go to the beach you can quite clearly see all of the seaweed and all of the sticks that have been washed up by the high-tide mark okay so as a visual indicator there if you know what you're looking for and that's going to show you at some point you will not be able to walk along this Beach there's a lovely cafe just to the end of this Beach people quite often parking the car park where we just started from and a walk along this Beach most of them probably unaware that there's a tide and this is why we're making this video today so you walked off to the cafe but I it ate you think yes fine toys not going to be back in four hours you've looked at the time we're going to walk back to the car after we've had an ice cream tea down there but suddenly the weather turns

the wind picks up and it starts to blow on shore okay this is quite a shallow beach at the top here and then it goes away really steep at the bottom so what's going to happen is the wind is going to blow the seeing came for sins not just the tide is pushing it and it's going to hit that Bank and break over human error and the chaos theory comes in people walk off and they think what it's okay I've checked out the tides of checked out the weather it's going to be fine we've got hours we can leave invoice the last point and then something happens a wave comes in which is your phone away or you just lose your keys in the Sun then you're there for an extra half an hour an hour it's too late by this point the tides come in the winds picked up as well you'll cut off okay so leave yourself plenty of time don't push it right to the last minute I generally and walking off the beach will make sure I'm rain the head before the time even starting to come in okay I'm not going to gamble or try and dice against nature and leave it right to the last moment if you gamble and you throw the dice Kate's nature only two fingers going to happen you're either going to be back telling the story or not okay never push it and leave it to the last moment when your ground round headlands so ever dangers that are going to possibly cut off our return home and we walked around headlands a cliff Falls pretty sandy kind of mixed clay cliff here with here where we are and it runs all the way around the Golden Cap which is the highest hill and safe case other places you're going to get granite which is a little bit more stable but still they can fall okay and I've been lucky enough to hear one of these cliff Falls but never been caught in it and it sounded like an articulated lorry or going over a bridge really fast on earthquake and tons and tons came down its 14 and basically the whole beach you would have been able to walk round the rocks went right down into the sea I mean this is like someone had got 20 or 30 skips rubble skipton empty them of stone one to the beach that means all of a sudden you happened to swim rang this cliff or worse thing that could possibly happen is you're SAT underneath it when it goes and people have died along here from cliff also there's lots of dangerous okay but they're not dangerous if you look out for them so I wouldn't sit underneath these cliffs and I wouldn't mind a headland where it looked like it was really unstable especially their sign saying that the clips are unstable and if they you ever do see one you'll know what i mean about the power of nature is tons and tons and tons a day we come down and like to say that's going to cut off your room and remember statistically the Coast Guard rescue loads of people simply just become quite a tight

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