Dolphins off Sunderland shore!

I remember when that seal was seen in the weir. Vaux had dumped hundreds of gallons of beer in the river at about that time iirc. Poor bastard was found dead a few weeks later.

Still, the way I would want to go.
 


Yankee Mackem said:
I remember when that seal was seen in the weir. Vaux had dumped hundreds of gallons of beer in the river at about that time iirc. Poor bastard was found dead a few weeks later.

Still, the way I would want to go.
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Years ago I once heard of a fella who fell in to one of the vats at Vauxies and died.

They say it took him a full four hours to drown.

Well it would have been quicker but he got out three time for a piss.
 
Hodgie1979 said:
Quite often seals in the wear i see them when at work as far down as the new bridge...otters anarl.
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Sammy the Seal was a well known character to the lads who worked in Pickies Southwick yard in the early 1970's . S/he would follow the sea trout up the river in the summer months. But otters - that's remarkable there was never any hope of seeing one of them in those days.

How the river Wear has changed. Basically it was an industrial sewer when I was a kid. If you fell in and swallowed the water the chances of getting something very nasty was very high.
 
Lord Potts said:
Sammy the Seal was a well known character to the lads who worked in Pickies Southwick yard in the early 1970's . S/he would follow the sea trout up the river in the summer months. But otters - that's remarkable there was never any hope of seeing one of them in those days.

How the river Wear has changed. Basically it was an industrial sewer when I was a kid. If you fell in and swallowed the water the chances of getting something very nasty was very high.
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Aye deffo otters mate think they live around clatchy rock area ...see them now and then when the tide is low on the banks.
 

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