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Bereft family members at Muriwai Beach on Tuesday morning.

EDITORIAL: Rock fishing is dangerous unless you treat it that way. Because the sea is zero.

We intuitively understand that danger lies in its dark depths or in open water. But we are less intuitively attentive to hunger on the edges.

In fact, no intention. There is nothing malicious about it. It's just the practical result of a combination of strengths. The water makes the rocks slippery. Tidal actions include the occasional wave that arrives powerfully and recoils in the same way.

So the rock, or even the gravel or sand, under the feet of the fisherman can be lubricated to the point of treacherous treachery as the unfortunate human figure is swept away.

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The imprudent and ill-prepared can be drowned; more recently, a couple fishing in the rocks at Muriwai Beach, Auckland

Mu Thu Pa, in her distress, handed a fishing rod to her husband Kay Dah Ukay, who was drowning, and joined him for lose balance. A loss bitterly felt by their family. It is none the less true that this is part of a familiar dynamic.

The west coast of Auckland has long been a problematic area for the safety of coastal fishing. Earlier this year, it was reported that drones would be used to help locate fishermen in conflict and to find the fastest and safest way to get to them. And – much older – there has been a supply of what our Australian friends would call angel rings, but we would recognize as lifebuoys attached to a large piece of rope near the edge of the river. water.

None of those who remotely addresses the need for people to approach their hobbies with an enlightened sense of caution. And this is true for people of the South as well as for others

At that time last year, Invercargill man, 29-year-old Shan Norton McLauchlan, was fishing off from Black Point, near Slope Point, and disappeared into the sea.

This is a good place for blue cod but really dangerous in rough seas. And even when things seem relatively placid, normal security calls must be made.

Take a lifejacket or belt. Show an intelligent interest in the information on the swell and the tide. And the time.

More than that, however, spend at least 10 minutes observing the conditions of the sea before approaching the rocky ledges and if waves and spray swept over it, forget it.

And do not turn your back on the sea

Then we have rubber boots. How many times do we see this? All is well, they are in rubber boots. If all is not well, they are sinkers filled with water. The sneakers are better

If all this sounds more familiar than convincing, consider that the same could be said of the annual appeal of the victims of rock fishing, which on average is of 39, about four per year

. You are saved, you are rescued, you are rescued, or you just jostle with a good hard and destructive fall – the type of concussion rather than the rash-rock inducing ones – and the blood approach begins to have the Brittle air.

                
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