Three women's bodies found in the sea at Brighton

[BlackTogetherAgain]

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

Why didn't anyone report three women were missing?

If it's a Channel crossing, from what I understand, it's rare that women go on the boats from France, and when they do they are pushed to the back / bottom, where the risk of being crushed is high.

If it's not a crossing, what on earth has happened?

Words can't express how evil this is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyg508gg28t

As pp have said, they were three young women, late teens to early twenties, fully clothed and had been on a student night out at a nearby nightclub.

Just spoken to my daughter. She said that Quarters was pretty empty last night as lots of Sussex uni students have finished for the year and gone home. She said that she's checked in with all of her crowd and everyone got home safely. She said everyone in halls is pretty shaken up by the news.

I know. I wish people would shut up about migrants on this thread. This is about a tragedy that came about due to lack of adequate signs on the beach and safety briefings by the university. I bet they will start those now for incoming freshers. The area is full of rip tides pushing east, and the sea there can be very powerful and rough due to it being so exposed. That is, there are no sandbars or inlets - it's just open sea, exposed to the wind. I know someone who was swept into the sea there and washed up a few miles east at Newhaven, His friend tossed him one of the life rings that are along the undercliff walk, but it didn't help. The currents pull you under. My late dad was part of the CoastWatch in his later years, and he recalled seeing a bright orange fishing net disappear under the waves at Newhaven (fishing port) and resurface a couple of miles east at Seaford. (They had powerful telescopes in the watch tower.)

All students coming to Brighton need to be strongly warned about these dangers.

Surprised nobody has been along yet to tie themselves in knots and say that it must somehow be the fault of a man/men.

This is clearly a terrible tragedy, but let the emergency services get on with their job and then discuss what happened after the facts are known

Huh? 😕

It's a terrible tragedy, but really? University students need better signage and education to know not to go into the sea at night, in high winds? Unfortunately risk taking is all part of being young. They know the risks and that'a all part of the appeal.

I live, not far from Clacton and sadly we have seen several deaths to the sea over recent years and tragically they have all been young people. I don’t think some of them have lived near the sea and don’t realise just how dangerous it is. I’ve drummed it into my dc about the dangers of the sea and water in general (we have a lot disused quarry pits around our villages which are now very deep water fishing lakes).

These things are always such a terrible tragedy, those poor girls.

Really? Yes. Very young adults don't have the life experience to respect the power of the sea. They may not have even heard of riptides. When you are 18 or so, there are many things you may not have yet heard of in your life. I would never, ever have gone into the sea after clubbing there, and it sounds like you also would not. But a surprising amount of people need the dangers explained to them. If they weren't locals, they also would not know that these currents a) exist and b) pull you under.

Latest reports say that they were fully clothed, so they may have gone down to the water's edge to watch the crashing waves and been swept in by a rogue one. It can get extremely rough down there and it doesn't take much wind.

Yes, exactly. If they are very young adults and have not lived near the sea, they may have no idea. I agree. Especially if no one told them that the area is full of riptides that pull you under and push you east. Poor, poor things.

If you want to discuss politics and migrants, maybe start another thread. This one isn't about those things.

mission do happen, missions go side ways, missions and people can be in unxplainable situations, that then lends the idea to maybe there is more to it than a simple gone swimming especially if other factors dont match eg was the water suitable for swimming, did they have customes, what was their activities upto that point, do they match logically etc

Same. I live very close too and it always makes me feel anxious when we drive that way and see countless people so close to the edge.

Why are you concerned about that ? Can you not join in with the sentiment of how tragic it all is ?
and also I can be excused for thinking these poor souls could have been illegal immigrants as this actually happens quite a lot lately unfortunately
so are you not thinking this is absolutely tragic for these ladies to have all died ? Not even thinking of their families ? but very hot to trot about what I said at the end of my heartfelt post ?

I hate to say it but it’s no safer - people drown in rivers and lakes all the time. We had a student die in the lake on the campus near here in an inland southern county, and I think it was York where a student died in a river recently. The only thing you can do is give them as much information as possible and remind them about float to survive (float on your back if you end up in the water).

RTFT.

What a ludicrous and offensive statement!

Generalising across huge groups of people based solely on race or heritage is wrong on both sides of an argument and is just as daft as the negative or racist posts.
Even a superficial Google check says "Generalizing across a large group of people based on their origin—such as nationality, ethnicity, or region—is widely considered a form of racism, ethnic prejudice or xenophobia. This practice, often referred to as stereotyping, involves assigning specific traits, behaviors, or limitations to all individuals from a certain place, ignoring their personal individuality."

Some migrants may well be nicer in some ways than some British people but it is beyond ridiculous to claim all and in every way.

I know this is true. There something that worries me about the way the nightclubs are directly on the beach in Brighton. And the sea I feel is a bit more dangerous with currents and rip tides.

But yes - we live by the river Thames here and there are sadly lots of drownings, mainly young people.

DS did do a water safely session in the local lake about what to do when you get in to trouble and all the dangers with regards to swimming in open water. Education is key I feel.

I did a working near water course - a practical one involving being in a white water course with a life jacket, using throw lines etc. would definitely recommend as it keeps me well away from anything which isn’t a pool!

Terrifying for you ❤️ xx

Can we all please stop talking about migrants? This thread is nothing to do with that topic. It's tragic, and personal for some of us. I lost a lovely classmate in the Eighties to these dreadful riptides in the area, and he was washed east just like these ladies. I can't believe it's still happening.

You're right - this nightclub is directly on the beach. I know it well. It's extremely tempting to go down to water's edge when you get out, all hyped up, to watch the powerful waves crashing onto the beach. I bet that's what they did and got swept in, since they were found clothed.

I posted separately about the tragedy of it. Why do you think I did not?

Well as you ask, I think immediately thinking that the drowning of three women in Brighton was due to a migrant issue, is an unintelligent or prejudiced (or both) assumption by those who made it.