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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-10 03:15 PM
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Man swept off rocks at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/11/07/16016146.html

Rescue teams are searching for a 28-year-old man that was swept into the waves at Peggy's Cove, NS Saturday evening.The CBC reports that the man was watching the waves with his girlfriend near the lighthouse at the tourist site when he fell into the water. The girlfriend was not hurt.

Two officers searching for the man also fell off the rocks at the scene but they were rescued shortly and taken to hospital where they were treated for non-life threatening injuries.








When we visited Peggy's Cove in October the winds were so strong it was frightening to stand out on the rocks.
I was trying to get some photos and really didn't think they would turn out well because I couldn't hold the camera still.

I can very well imagine how someone could be swept off their feet and into the high waves of the ocean if they get too close to the edge.

How sad for this young man and his fiance and family.

aA
kesha.

Peggy's Cove.






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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-10 08:53 PM
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1. When Swiss Air 111 crashed off the coast of Peggy's Cove they had men and ropes all the way
around the rocks at the edge of Peggy's Cove because they were afraid of the family members of the dead souls falling or jumping in in their grief. People die there every few years.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-10 10:08 PM
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2. Reminiscent
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-10 01:07 AM
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3. how awful :(
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-10 01:12 PM
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4. Peggy's Cove eats a tourist every few months, usually during bad weather
Those rocks are frictionless when wet - you can see from that picture that they've been polished as time goes by - and some of the waves get astonishingly high when it's not calm out. Waves crashing opposite the lighthouse, clearing it, and coming down on that road in the midground of that picture aren't that unusual in storms, and smaller freak ones occasionally pop up on nice days.

I absolutely love the place, but it demands respect when the weather's anything other than blue windless skies.
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