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Swimmers beaten by cold

... swim the hazardous 21-mile stretch of sea between Donaghadee and Portpatrick. Miss Lietzau was the first to fall victim to jellyfish stings and chilling temperatures. She was pulled from the water suffering from exhaustion after covering half the distance ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Girls in double bid on record

... and Hanna will face are jellyfish and cold. She was not disheartened because Sandra, & 37-year-old New Zealander had to be pulled out of the water yesterday just five miles from Portpatrick suffering from hypothermia and jellyfish stings. A waiting ambulance ...

Published: Tuesday 18 August 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Channel two

... conditions between July 31 and August 4 before she smears her body with thick goose fat to ward off the intense cold and the jellyfish and takes the plunge. Mr. Legge will leave the drawing board in Craigavon Area Hospital, Portadown, on August 7 and head ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Couple have itchy feet

... of their fantastic beaches in Greenisland but sea bathing was not allowed. This was because of an invasion fo poisonous jellyfish. However, there was a swimmin% pool and we were able to use this instead.” The Matthews told me of visiting a beach which ...

Published: Monday 28 December 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 499 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

By C. Douglas Deane

... summer, but with something to hide. | mind keeping watch behind a wal! ot the ‘fort' watching both turnstone and a swarm of jellyfish, which was trying to commit suicide by beaching itself above reach of the sea. WITH less than a month remaining before the ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 530 | Page: 15 | Tags: none