Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
especially the Blackpool ones, its amazing how quick it changes from low to high tide.
Yep. Thats how the cockle pickers get caught out, further up the coast in Morecambe Bay. Weren't they illegal immigrants too?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/l...re/3464203.stm

Yes. The sands slope away at a low gradient. We were drilling wells off Blackpool and quite a way out to sea and yet the water was only 45ft deep at mean tide.