Teenage boy 'swept away' by sea

[Jimbuna]

An early victim of the storm predicted to hit the UK any time soon but the question I would ask is what is a fourteen year old doing swimming when such a weather forecast is announced

A 14-year-old boy has been swept away by the sea in Sussex, police say.
Sussex Police received a call at 16:15 GMT to say the boy, who had been swimming with a friend off West Beach in Newhaven, had been "swept away by the current".
A helicopter and lifeboat are being used in the search for the boy.
A police spokesman said: "This is a very distressing incident and everything possible is being done to try to find the boy."
He added: "All agencies remind people of the dangers of being at seashores in adverse weather, especially in view of the approaching severe weather conditions overnight.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-24697520

[DragonRider]

And a dam good question it is
But there again I have just seen a pic of a father walking with two small children along a beach in the start of the heavy winds ...idiot

[Herr-Berbunch]

When I was 13 my best mate was washed over the railings at Scarborough during a school trip, it's only this last couple of years that I've even gone back there (I was on the same trip the week before!). I spent many years hoping that he'd been washed over to Holland and was living a new life and one day he'd just return - 'ta-dah'.

No such luck.

That RNLI video is shocking, even if they'd spotted him it'd be horrendous to get him on board either the helo or lifeboat.

Once more a warning to others who may think it's fun to do something stupid.

[Jimbuna]

Helo lift would have been the only possible option in those conditions.