RNLI

[noseall]

Nosenout celebrates the numbers coming down

Always. Glad you sorted your specs.

 

[motorbiking]

There are or were other factors, e.g. weather, tides, variations in beach patrols, launching from Belgium, etc.

tides
do you think these change year to year significantly?

 

[noseall]

do you think these change year to year significantly?

Depends what other conditions they are combined with.
Tidal currents can be favourable or unfavourable so yes, it can make a difference.

 

[motorbiking]

Depends what other conditions they are combined with.
Tidal currents can be favourable or unfavourable so yes, it can make a difference.

Tides are primarily caused by the moon and the sun. They do not change year to year. They also move mostly left to right (flood) and right to left (ebb) in the channel. They only briefly head south on the turn.

At the shortest point the crossing is approx 18 Nm at the preferred crossing point it’s around 22 Nm.

At an avg SoG of 4-5kts we have a crossing time of 5~6 hours. Assuming you were completely clueless and picked the worse possible time to cross your crossing would be impacted by 1-2 hours.

There are no scenarios where we have a “bad” tide year or a “good” tide year which might impact the numbers.

 

[fillyboy]

 

[ellal]

are you seriously trying to suggest the above is a claim that

"the RNLI is to blame for the spectacular rise in immigration"

Glad we got that cleared up then...

So since they are not to blame whether the figures go up or down, why are some still having a go at them for providing a 'taxi service', and petulantly stopping donating to them?

 

[King Billy]

Tides are primarily caused by the moon and the sun. They do not change year to year. They also move mostly left to right (flood) and right to left (ebb) in the channel. They only briefly head south on the turn.

At the shortest point the crossing is approx 18 Nm at the preferred crossing point it’s around 22 Nm.

At an avg SoG of 4-5kts we have a crossing time of 5~6 hours. Assuming you were completely clueless and picked the worse possible time to cross your crossing would be impacted by 1-2 hours.

There are no scenarios where we have a “bad” tide year or a “good” tide year which might impact the numbers.

Combined with weather and other events the combination of tides- weather - other events can make a difference.
A little footnote for filly to scribble in his book, Saling for Dummies, and for you for your future safety at sea.

Weather conditions significantly affect tides by altering both the height and timing of the water levels. While gravitational forces govern regular tides, atmospheric pressure and wind can cause actual water levels to differ notably from standard astronomical predictions.

What is storm surge?​

Storm surge is the rise in seawater level caused solely by a storm.​

 

[motorbiking]

Combined with weather and other events the combination of tides- weather - other events can make a difference.

Weather - yes we agree this makes a difference. For example the direction of the wind and if it is going in the opposite direction to the tide. "wind over tide".

However, this does not make a difference from one year to the next.

An illegal migrant need only set off half-way through ebb or flood to have its impact cancelled out by the following given they last 6.5 hours.

A little footnote for filly to scribble in his book, Saling for Dummies, and for you for your future safety at sea.

Given he's done the YM Theory course and exam, I suspect he is aware.

 

[motorbiking]

Glad we got that cleared up then...

So since they are not to blame whether the figures go up or down, why are some still having a go at them for providing a 'taxi service', and petulantly stopping donating to them?

Migration and illegal migration are different things.

Providing a service to assist illegal small boats, encourages them to come. The people smugglers know they will be helped and often don't even put enough fuel in the boat for the journey. If support was exclusively left to boarder force finding a "skipper" would be harder, given the likelihood he would be identified for prosecution.

 

[aveatry]

We should just wait at the UK coastline - man it with volunteers if necessary and arrest them on landing and escort them to secure facilities with basic aminities where they will stay until their asylum request has been processed and if we can not ascertain their identity to find out if they are a potential threat to the UK public then in the detention centre is where they will stay until they decide to tell us who they really are and where they are from and they want to go back to their wife’s and families they left behind. Then its on a plane and off they go.