Hello

I would suggest that west of Worthing pier to Grand Avenue (c 1 mile?) timber
first arrived overnight friday / saturday morning. I don't recollect seeing any
lying around during the day Friday. Saturday lunctime in this area there were
timber deposits at approx 3-400 metre intervals on the sand. but they were still
mainly bundled. What probably did'nt help were when the straps holding the
timber were cut enabling easy release of planks for those who were removing
them! Come Sunday morning you have what has been recorded by numerous photos.
Hope that helps.

Chris

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> To: Glaucus@...
> From: Glaucus@...
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:29:37 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Glaucus] Re: Drifting Timber
>
>
> Hello,
>
> First West Sussex reports (from John Knight) were very small amounts of pine
> planks washed up on Selsey beach on Friday 18 January 2008. The large
> amounts came in first on Saturday and mostly on Sunday from Selsey to
> Clymping (near Littlehampton). Most at Worthing though where first hand
> reports are not available from (yet).
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy Horton
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "seawatch17" <stevep.savage@...>
> To: <Glaucus@...>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:34 PM
> Subject: [Glaucus] Re: Drifting Timber
>
> Okay thanks Andy.
>
> Sometimes in the news reports they state things like, timber first
> washed up on ??????? beach at ???????
>
> If anyone hears any such statement for part of coastline between
> Worthing and Brighton that would be great. It would of course still
> be estimated with a fair degree of possible error but it will help
> to provide a context for children to visualise.
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
> --- In Glaucus@..., "Andy Horton" wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Gawd knows.
>>
>> The timber is behaving like all the other debris. Worthing and
> Southwick
>> beaches get the most. Shoreham not as much, but lots of it.
> Pictures soon.
>>
>> I will leave the time scale up to you.
>>
>> The environmental contractors have done something with radioactive
> pebbles
>> and it seems to be erratic before the statistics were compiled
> which I have
>> not seen. The beaches are not arranged like Chesil and to
> ascertain movement
>> by the size of the pebbles, cobbles, depending on size would take
> a
>> mathematician to comprise a formulae, which like the one with
> movement of
>> sediment in rivers, I do not find all that useful.
>>
>> The usual fossil is Echinocorys scutatus.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Andy Horton
>> glaucus@...
>> Adur Valley Nature Notes
>> http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Adur2007.html
>> http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Adur2008.html
>> Adur Valley Nature Notes: January 2008
>> http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Jan2008.html
>> Adur Valley & Downs Gallery
>> http://www.flickr.com/groups/adur/pool/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "seawatch17"
>> To: <Glaucus@...>
>> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:53 PM
>> Subject: [Glaucus] Drifting Timber
>>
>>
>> Hi Andy
>>
>> Do you know if their is a time scale for the movement of the timber
>> along the coast.
>>
>> I am keen to include this accident as an example of local currents
> and
>> tides as part of my geography module for local schools.
>>
>> It would be good to have estimated information of the time the
> timber
>> reached different beaches; such as Worthing, Shoreham, Brighton.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
>
>

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