According to several witnesses, a young woman has passed away from drowning Saturday, at around 18: 30, beach Bar, then not monitored. The swimmer were swimming near the rocks of the dam to the mouth of the Adour, when she was carried off by a violent current.
The conditions were so dangerous, with a violent “shore break” on the edge, and waves of about 2.5 metres. Only a few surfers were in the water, including a group of the Anglet Surf Club. The young woman was practically at the end of the breakwater when it is hooked to the board of a surfer, exhausted by his attempts to regain the shore.
“In a state of shock”
The monitor of the group of surf is brought to her rescue and took her back to the shore. Several students from the course have also released their boards out of big rolls of edge that she couldn’t cross. “We stayed with it for ten minutes on the sand, by the time it is to regain its breath “, showed on Monday, one of the surfers in the group angloy, pharmacist in the Landes.
“She was in a state of shock “. A reminder that the ocean is beautiful but dangerous. He made his first victim of the season on may 27 in Ondres (40) with a small 7-year old boy, swept away by a wave. Sunday, Hossegor (40), it is a bodysurfeur who played 500 metres from the bathing area which has lost the life.
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