Downstream

You should, he says, always
try and swim across the
current, but ‘they tried to beat
the tide’ – and nearly died.
There are other hazards,
too: ‘a lot of time you’re
standing on oyster shells’,
then there’s boat wreckage,
trawler wire which is used to
hold the nets and ‘some just
push it over the side, so we
find coils of wire in the mud,
as well as wartime debris,
anti-aircraft shells, plane