Really couldn’t understand how this would happen. Unless he couldnt swim at all or was weighed down by clothing or something. The shore is so close to anywhere on that wharf.
Guess it just shows how easy something can go wrong around water.
Apparently he was wearing heavy work boots, denim jeans and jacket and a polar fleece. And police say alcohol ‘may’ have been involved. Is that wharf actually used as a wharf or just used by people fishing etc? I wonder if they could put safety rails around it or something..
Its a working wharf so rails wouldn’t work. I can’t see why his mate couldn’t have used a rod to help guide him to the steps. in the photo below you can see the steps toward the bottom left.
Seems odd too me the steps lead right to the water, I heard he hung onto a pile for an hour , in his defense he was a tad weathered 54. So may not have been physically able to swim and being loaded on piss wouldn’t help