Very Dangerous Morecambe Bay tide , time lapse , Apr 16. Super high tide in 48 seconds!

23 Cockle pickers drown in Morecambe bay in 2004. The fast in-coming tide can out-run a galloping horse.Morecambe bay is the north west of England, about 70 miles from Manchester.
Approximately 2.5 hours high tide in 48 seconds. Time lapse taken with an iPhone 6s plus.

[azimuth]

Thousands of movies. Thousands of shows. Millions of videos. All the information and entertainment in the world literally at my fingertips. I think the most enjoyable and satisfying thing I could watch is grazing sheep, drifting clouds, and the rising and lowering tide.

[JonFrumTheFirst]

It's not the speed of the tide that's the real problem. When the water comes in, it loosens the sand/mud and created a quicksand-like surface and it's hard to walk. If you're fully clothed, the wet clothes weigh you down. Cold water makes it physically difficult. And panic prevents you from thinking clearly. Otherwise, you could just roll over, float, and let the tide carry you to shore.

[vmm]

I remember being on Morecambe beach aged 4 in 1965, a coach trip to the resort. The sea came in SO fast we had to run. A man pulled me up onto the wall and helped my mother up too. I've never forgotten it, I was terrified!

[PrinceDuCiel]

We have tidal flats that stretch for miles where I live. I was out at crescent beach in BC Canada during an ultra low tide.
Walked all the way to the edge of the water. Played around with the muddy sand and noticed the water was creeping up. Turned around and saw the “front” of the water was now twenty feet behind me.
Started walking back but by the time I got to the sea wall, the water was up to my hips. And I’m 180cm/5’11”!
Parents were carrying their smaller kids, I looked back and saw some were just swimming in. Including some dogs!

[christins.]

I remember as a little girl at a beach late and my Dad said we had to leave because of the tide rising. I didn't understand and he pointed out something tall on the beach and told me later that will be under water. I thought that was impossible. We left, he brought me back and showed where I was standing hours ago was all under water.
I was amazed.

[bradnotbread]

At Southend you can watch the tide coming in and walk in with it. It never ceases to fascinate me. It's not waves; it calmly and visibly flows in. It does go out a heck of a way and the ground is fairly flat.

[Lord_Ronin_The_Compassionate]

Having walked across the bay several times, I don’t think I’ve ever been more cautious, nervous, or extra aware of the bay tides speed. It was quite an adventure the first time, especially stopping to try catch some sea trout, but I quickly realised that there’s wisdom in the phrase “that time and tide wait for no one”, not even Royal Marines!

[jackglossop]

Nowhere near as dangerous: but I was recently shocked by the tide at Brancaster. I dozed off with the water a clear 500 meters from me and woke up 20 minutes later with it lapping at my feet. I can see how people get into trouble.

[carolynallisee]

A few years ago, a number of people drowned whilst out picking cockles. They'd been caught out by such a tide, and, what made it worse was that they were able to make phone calls to say they were trapped by the rising tide. Efforts were made to save them, but the water came in too fast. The unfortunate victims were all Chinese and part of a commercial cockle picking crew. This incident heigchtened not only people's awareness of the danger of tides, but also how little proper training, support and supervision were given to such commercial crews, working for relatively low pay.

[jakesolo]

My grandad was a merchant seaman his whole life and couldn’t bear to be away from the ocean, but one of my clearest memories as a young kid is going out on a coast walk with him, my Dad and my brothers and him blasting us for farting around near the water and not paying attention. Which was a shock as until then he’d just been a kindly, quiet, old grandad type guy to us.

“Boys - never, ever, ever turn your back on the sea. She’s not your friend. She’ll take you away in a second.” With a couple of eff words thrown in.

I never forgot that.

[malcolmabram]

I had an Aunt who lived next to Morecambe bay. I remember as a young kid looking at the sea. The next day I said to my Aunt, 'Where has the sea gone?' It was sand to the horizon.

[TheChrisEMartin]

I like the idea that there is a 'Queen's Guide to the Sands' - someone appointed by the Queen (ever since Queen Elizabeth I) to guide people crossing the dangerous sands of the Bay - because there are official rights of way to walk across that have been used for centuries. These bays are very dangerous. I recall walking across the Dee Estuary to Hilbre Island and the tide came in behind me and was advancing across the sand faster than I could walk - luckily I got through it just in time.

[jonathoncoates]

I fish the bays regularly for flounder. Not so long ago I was fishing round at Silverdale. It was due a big tide at over 10 metres. I warned people to be extra careful as the tide comes in very fast around this area An old couple didn't heed the warning ??? They were cut off within an instance. & luckily a young lad helped them up the grass banking over barbed wire fencing into the farmers field. Very lucky indeed. So please everyone take note of tide times.

[ginogina]

I was a student at Lancaster University in the 60s. At night, we used to lay in the viking stone tombs in the Heysham Church cemetary and listen to the water lapping on the Bay shore.

[icarusbinns]

As a mountain kid… this was beautiful to watch. Probably dangerous to uneducated fools, such as myself.

[newdefsys]

Dont underestimate the tide. I almost drowned when caught in a rising tide similar to this video. I made it to safety at the last moment, one second longer and I would have died.

[DiddlyPenguin]

Morcombe Bays high tide is very dangerous. Some years ago 21 people out picking mussels were drowned there as they
Didn’t realise that the tide came in that fast & they got cut off.

[alansteely]

Great video for teaching inter-tidal safety 👍👍

[westcoastphotos.ireland]

Really good, like the two perspectives 👍

[CamillaI]

My Mother grew up in Morecombe there in the 40's and recounts bathing in the sea ! They were always warning visitors of the dangers ! People who didn't know the area drowned at the top end of the beach ! No lifeguards in those days !