Lost at Sea! - Nearly
We went out on a school trip to the beach on Thursday, 17 July, 2003. That was one hell of a trip! I was there as an adult supervising, along with one other adult and two teaching staff. We'd planned for a BBQ and to play some games on the beach. We got there and started setting up and the kids asked to go down and play on the beach. We let them go down and told them not to go into the sea. Kids being kids - they went down to the sea and started pissing about. It was 10 minutes or so when we had sorted all the stuff out that a student came running back saying some of the kids had been pulled out to sea. We thought they were joking and wondered down - little did we know all hell was breaking loose!

The sea had turned, it suddenly became very violent, the clouds darkened and it became freezing - just like what would happen in a movie! - We started trying to get out to the kids but they were too far out, past the sand bar and I grabbed the mobile and dialled 999. Within 20 minutes, we had any amounts of ambulances, 4x4 coastguard jeeps, a helicopter and some lifeboats on the way! (I felt quite pleased)

Bla-Bla everyone was rescued, we even made the news (and the international headlines later that night)

Here's the proof;
* - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3074759.stm

* - https://mcanet.mcga.gov.uk/public/news/release.asp?mcga_news_id=2279&month=7&year=2003

As you can guess, the Mirror took things to the extreme! www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13190390&method=full&siteid=50143
(KevAkas, Sun 10 Dec 2006, 9:52, Reply)