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Article: Rip-tide was like an exocet, says dad
- Article from:
- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2007
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A Father who survived the Algarve beach drownings today described
the force of the lethal waters which claimed the lives of three
British parents as "like an Exocet".
Dean Plumb, of South Marston, near Swindon, ran to help after
seeing son Samuel, 12, caught in a rip-tide at Praio do Tonel in the
Portuguese village of Sagres on Monday, he told a national
newspaper.
Robert and Deborah Fry and their friend Jean Dinsmore, from
Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, died after being caught in a treacherous
current, while a German father died of a heart attack after his
child was saved.
Speaking from his hospital bed, Mr Plumb, 40, told the paper: "I
was just in a constant fight with the rip-tide. You can ...
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