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Daredevil photographer drowns after being sucked into deadly whirlpool

Hayle Harbour, United Kingdom, 2013

The Whirlpool

"The whirlpool in Hayle Harbour only appears a few times a year. It was a quirk of Victorian engineering devised to stop the harbour silting up. Water would be stored in a pool at high tide and, once the tide had retreated, released back into the harbour to wash away the sand. The water would get into the pool through a tunnel beneath a quay. But sometimes the tide would come back in faster than the water could pass through the tunnel."

This would create the whirlpool.

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1719706802479517.webp

Jacob Cockle

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17197068034109478.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17197084051357136.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17197068052217755.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1719728350536705.webp

Jacob's last moments

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/jacob_cockle

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Uhhh anyone got better footage of how he died? Only the last 30 seconds of this video showed anything remotely deathly and it just sort of cut off as well.

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