Trying to fight it can be very dangerous and exhausts you very rapidly, more so if you panic.

Your top priority should be to keep your head above water. The current is only strong in the narrowest part of the channel, and so it will carry you for a short distance, and then stop, with no harm done.

I think a very practical, inexpensive and a potential life saver would be to make a few floating ropes across the channel. So swimmers will have something safe to grab on to if they are in a difficulty.

What a miserable excuse for a human being to be so callous in the face of such a tragedy.

Not at all. Sunday’s segment didn’t mention anything about their names or appearance. All that was known was that they were British.

I agree.

I’m sure the fact that the men were of Middle Eastern extraction influenced the vile comments towards them.

It is the thought to quality, detail and actual priorities that is missing.

These have not evolved to cater to actual market needs. Safety, is a priority. The quality of that safety with it.

For want of a sign two lives were lost.

To those concerned, take action immediately before another tragedy occurs.

He is a disgruntled worker in the hospitality industry and goes out of his way every single day to sneer at every single foreigner who ends up in trouble in Malta.

By going to the Facebook page Name and Shame, one can see how Jow Galea attacks the person involved in the situation and not the actual situation and circumstance that resulted in the negative outcome.