The yellow caution tape is up at Middle Cove Beach after some risky behaviour on the weekend.
People trying to get that perfect snap ventured out onto sea ice as the pans moved right into the beach for the first time in over a decade. People were seen on the ice pans with their dogs and cameras 15 or 20 feet from shore.
A situation which happens every year is the lure of the massive ice wall. However, Mayor Dennis Hickey says people should view it from a distance.
(Middle Cove Beach)
He mentions the accident a few years ago in which a child was injured after a chunk of ice broke free and struck him.
A volunteer with search and rescue cautions people against treating slob ice as if it were a solid structure.
Larry Daley, whose company organizes expeditions to the site of the Titanic, was in Outer Cove and Middle Cove on Sunday and again on Monday and witnessed plenty of risky behaviour.
(Outer Cove Beach)
People were on the ice ridge—dogs and kids in tow. Daley says they could have easily had a fatality.
He saw people on top of the ice ridge with a puppy on a leash and a toddler wandering around, something which made him sick to his stomach. “You’re talking about a pressure ridge and that it eventually going to move with the tide and current,” he says.
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— Allison King (@AllisonKingVOCM) March 14, 2023
