seaham pier

[gazzawill]

just heard someone fell of seaham pier tonight around 630 pm dunno how far its true but the seaking was there for 30/40 mins so was police hellicopter and air ambulance any one know if its true

[gazzawill]

ive just heard it was a fisherman washed of the pier ????

[john/r]

very sad news

[BriH]

ive just heard it was a fisherman washed of the pier ????

is the sea that big tonight ??


maybe fell in - hope all is well though

[KeithB]

Sad news!!

Hope he's ok.

The sea looked rough on the webcams at teatime.

[mrchips]

I was down s/land sea front to night with the dog low and behold the pier was open 6 on the round head fishing sea was coming over the pier few fishing just befor the 1st set of steps were it was safer no waves coming over but some fisherman were trying to get to the round head i saw the seaking coming back and a short while later the lifeboat coming back in then a car went on peir to tell them all to get off
So why was it open when the sea was coming over one fisherman was not to pleased when i was talking to him he say's it was only coming over on parts of the pier i saw the waves going over the round head and thats were he was fishing some people got no idea wot they are doing
Hope the lad is ok

[sless]

i know 4 lads that got kicked off the pier tonight
i was at the rathouse and a lad came over and said he heard a lad had been swept off seaham pier

i hope he is ok

[Rod]

Came along the seafront at Seaham at 4.30 pm and the pier was awash from one end to the other,didn`t see anyone on it then.

[gazzawill]

the gates at seaham are ment to be chaind off if awash and members are not permited access but alot have been climbing on from the slope beach

ive heard nothing more about this apart from the sea king had returned around 9 pm with its floodlight on

hope who ever it is is safe and sound

[mrchips]

Wooden plank sparks sea rescue






A major sea rescue was launched after a member of the public reported seeing someone in the water off Seaham which turned out to be a large piece of wood.
Helicopters from RAF Boulmer, Northumbria Police and the North East Air Ambulance joined Sunderland's RNLI Lifeboat in the search after someone was reported to be in difficulty 300m off the North Pier.

Waves as high as 2m in the area made the search more difficult, then crews spotted a 4ft piece of wood floating vertically.

More searches were carried out to make sure no-one was in danger, and the operation was stood down 90 minutes after the alarm was raised

Paul Nicholson, Senior Helmsman at Sunderland RNLI, said: "After carrying out a full search of the area, we were all happy that no one remained in the sea in difficulty.

"It would appear that this turned out to be a false call with good intent, as the floating piece of wood could have looked like a person from the shoreline."

[Brashy]

aye the sea picked up last nite with that wind swinging round