Re: so where is everybody from? | Forum

Kid Calamity Mar 29, 2007 16:10:28

Replying to Eduardo

I've got some friends who are part of this organisation:

http://www.sas.org.uk/

I didn't think we still dumped raw sewage in the sea anymore. That's quite a horrifying story.

I was once snorkling off Corfu and found myself following a long pipe on the seabed - I became aware of something blurred in the distance, ahead of me. Some sort of large mass - near the surface. On getting closer I found it to be the end of the pipe, a section where it wasn't weighed down to the bed. There was a huge mouldy growth of fungus or something feeding on the open end where all manner of human biproduct was spewing into the water that I was swimming in! I swam as fast as I could back to the beach. Gahhh, just typing this and remembering it makes me want to puke.

Daminxa Mar 29, 2007 16:14:01

Replying to Kid Calamity

It's not raw sewage being pumped in at Saltdean, but you do get the smell. To be honest, the smell of all the chemicals involved in sewage treatment isn't any better than the smell of the shit itself!

Eduardo Mar 30, 2007 08:06:12

Replying to Kid Calamity

That's nasty!

My story dates back from the early 1980s so I've no idea if the sewage is raw or treated these days. Back then it was very raw, & if it was an exceptionally low tide the bottom portion of the whole beach was rank. You could smell it from miles away! (Still stinks in fact, but nowadays it's dogshit).

it was on the mouth of an estuary & the odd thing was, if you walked along the beach a few hundred yards, you went round a bit of a bend & the beach there was alright.