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This is a live cam with volume and I watch it from time to time, today it's showing how bad the weather is. This is just up from where the railway got washed out a few years ago, I think we can understand why as I watch this.https://youtu.be/xsD21zBb73o

Know that section very well as I used to see patients at Palm Court Nursing Home which is opposite the second section of car parking along the front.

Always surprised me they didn't permanently re route trains further inland as while I was there I can remember that section out many times.

Know they have just spent mega to strengthen the wall and the railway but never under estimate the force of the sea!!

Know it very well, I managed a holiday park at Dawlish Warren and Mrs G and myself often walked the path twixt sea and railway into Dawlish town..

Best holiday I had many many years ago with my brother and sister and all their families at dawlish Warren caravan park. It was then we learned about English holidays, the park was empty for 2 weeks and on the last day we woke up and there wasn’t an empty pitch, English schools had broken up the day before lol

Just across the estuary from me (Exmouth.) When it collapsed it was incredible to see the section of track (unbroken) just swinging in the wind.

I'm more of a Palaiokastritsa man myself!
https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/we...kastritsa.html

I know it well as I lived 20 metres away from the section that got washed away.---:eek::eek::eek:

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Originally Posted by Ian G (Post 2865234)

Know it very well, I managed a holiday park at Dawlish Warren and Mrs G and myself often walked the path twixt sea and railway into Dawlish town..

As above I lived right at the point that section washed away.

You comment about the path between the railway and sea made me think.
I came out of my house one dark rainy night and I thought I heard a shout of HELP.--I got my large torch and crossed the railway lines to the wall above the path. Apart from my torch it was pitch black. I shone my torch down on to the sea and searched about. I saw a black dot in the water. It was the head of the person shouting for help. It turned out that a large wave had washed him and his bicycle into the sea. The surface of the sea was, maybe, ten feet below the path so he couldn't get out. I found a life ring and threw it to him. I tied the rope to the railings then called to my wife to phone the police and the coast guard.--Both lots finally turned up and we got the guy out of the water. It took about 20 minutes in all. I had been soaked in very cold sea water and the police gave me wrap to stop me shivering.

I was pleased to realise I had almost certainly save the guys life.

My good deed for the day.

The guy was lucky indeed ... if not a miraculous escape. If the sea was powerful enough to flatten him and pull him off the foreshore then it would have, noise of the force of the sea and its pummeling nature, have pounded him against the sea wall. Courtesy of my dad, I've seen what the power of the sea can do to substantial Victorian bollards on a pier of Victorian vintage. Substantial heavy metal bollards bent like pieces of plastic. He, and my mum, paid for my lessons to further educate me regards this and how best to avoid if not try to survive the circumstance. The sea, the tides, the rivers and the forces of nature which I feel should be part of the curriculum of a maritime nation. Where I live it saddens me that lives are lost on an all-too-frequent basis to the aforementioned. Sometimes kids playing chicken with the sea but sometimes adults who might have been lucky with doing so in the past. And then there is a lack of understanding about the danger of the rest. The tides and the river flows can change with great force to pull you off your feet and suck you away to your death. The depth of water does not have to be great to be a danger ... but, then again, more than a few will have succumbed to injury by failing to gauge the depth in a municipal swimming pool.

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Originally Posted by WillyHeckaslike (Post 2866143)

As you say--very lucky---there were no other people about and it was by sheer chance that I heard him.

There were step built into the steep sea wall to allow, in normal times, people to get down to the beach. Unfortunately these were20 yards away along the beach and were invisible in the pitch black of the night and sea.

Pulling the guy towards these steps also pulled him towards the vertical concrete against which the waves were smashing them selves. It was very worrying that he might not have made it. Luckily we got him there. He was suffering from hypothermia and could not have kept his grip on the life ring for much longer.--However all's well that ends well.
Once I'd got the guy to put his headthrough the life ring