Please join us here at Ridge to Reef Farm Saturday, Dec 17, for a Memorial Service to honor her life and celebrate her soul & spirit. As such, Ellen literally seeded thousands of plants that will grow into this year's winter CSA season at the farm and we dedicate this coming year to her as she continues to touch us all. She was extremely passionate about growing food organically and enjoying each moment in life. By all accounts Ellen contained a shining beauty that she shared with honesty and an endless curiosity and zest for life. Members of her immediate and farm family want to carry on Ellen's incredibly lively and inspiring spirit as we honor her life in ceremony, and even more importantly in our daily lives following. She was swept to sea and drowned while on her day off visiting the anally tide pools on 12/8/11. We have experienced an unspeakably tragic loss with the passing of our beloved intern, Ellen Nettles. Me no know! ?ĮLLEN NETTLES MEMORIAL SERVICE & POT LUCK PARTY
And then again maybe the installation of a warning sign might make plunging into the pools more attractive like a "Fear Factor" exercise in futility. If there are no warning signs up by the Annaly pools then maybe there should be. Two forward one sucked back and it seemed an interminable journey but I was soon able to get myself back in the calm water and haul myself out of the water. I carefully started slowly swimming on a tangent. There was nobody else around, I was being sucked out into open sea. The second time at Mandahl I'd swum out beyond the ACE breaker as I'd done many times before and - whooompf - I got sucked in big time. Writing this down, now I do know but that's a whole 'nother story! I made it to safety, of course. The first time it happened to me I honestly have no idea how, after the first initial panic, I somehow knew to relax and go with the flow. Your every instinct is to fight and swim but, however powerful a swimmer you are, all your motions are to no avail. Friendly calm water all of a sudden turns into a fiendish turmoil where your body is being dragged. I was caught once up in Maine many years ago and once at Mandahl on STT many years ago. Apparently the sign eventually fell apart and, a few years later, one of the Wheatley boys met his demise in that same spot.Īnyone who's ever been caught in a rip knows (and obviously at least one poster here has had the experience) how devastating the experience is. I don't know whether or not there are warning signs posted by the Annaly Pools but there WERE signs posted at the end of Peterborg Point on STT many years ago when someone suffered a similar fate. VIPD spokesman Toby Derima did not immediately respond to a request for more information.Tide pools shouldn't be messed with period. There is a dive shop on the Carambola property – the same one that is located at Cane Bay.” We are no longer at Cane Bay (since Hurricane Maria). “I highly recommend you remove the photo of Cane Bay Dive Shop’s boat IBIS with the story about a tourist drowning at Carambola this past week,” Suzanne Rosbach of the Cane Bay Dive Shop said. “A retraction that Cane Bay Dive Shop was not involved in this challenging situation. Cane Bay Dive Shop’ s location is Salt River and Frederiksted.
The Virgin Islands Police Department also did not release where Lowe is from.Ī reader said that Carambola Beach Resort has its own in-house dive shop that the fallen diver used. Joseph stated that she did not know the victim’s age. Peter Lowe, who was diving with friends when he “ran into some trouble and he died as a result of drowning,” VIPD Police Lieutenant Naomi Joseph said in a press conference on Sunday. Croix drowned Sunday morning while diving in choppy waters near the resort’s beach, authorities said. DAVIS BAY - A tourist staying at the Carambola Beach Resort near Cane Bay on St.