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I always find it amazing that so many people don't seem to have heard the frequently-repeated warnings of how dangerous the Thames is
This pisses me off. Swimming in the Thames has risk but people want to do it for all sorts of reasons. Banning stuff never works. Educate people and facilitate them to reduce the risk.
jellybaby-
This pisses me off. Swimming in the Thames has risk but people want to do it for all sorts of reasons. Banning stuff never works. Educate people and facilitate them to reduce the risk.
I do share that general attitude, but it didn't occur to me in the context of the Thames. It would be interesting to get a full run-d0wn of the risks--in news reports, you only ever hear a few that people use to make the general point, but I'm sure there must be more. I personally can't understand why anyone would want to swim in the Thames in London, but what I've always wondered about is why, if the river is now supposed to be cleaner than it was, there isn't one of those lido platforms that you get in other European cities. I mean, Livingstone wanted to copy the Paris Plage, but without people actually being able to swim in the Thames, but there are plenty of river swimming facilities elsewhere. Perhaps there are some constraints that really can't be overcome so easily.
Oliver Schick
Annoying and irresponsible--I always find it amazing that so many people don't seem to have heard the frequently-repeated warnings of how dangerous the Thames is.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/30/thames-safety-warning-after-film-maker-has-to-be-rescued-from-river
Who knows whether he would have been OK if those guys hadn't pulled him out, despite wetsuit and all.