article_snippet: Inspector Christopher Willis, from Essex Police, told An inquest that the North Sea would have appeared deceptively calm, instilling a false belief that it would be possible to swim to shore.
article_snippet: But even if they had not been sucked under the ship, they were unlikely to have survived fierce competing tides, neither man said. '
article_snippet: To swim to land with those tides and the water temperature would have been nigh-on impossible - an Olympic swimmer would have struggled,' neither man added.
article_snippet: Mr Willis said a tide heading out to the North Sea at about four knots met another northerly tide at about the point where The two men jumped.
article_snippet: This, combined with a sea temperature of about 7C, meant the conditions were virtually unsurvivable, Mr Willis said. '
article_snippet: It may have been that the were used to warmer and less tidal waters in the were used to warmer and less tidal waters in their home country and this gave them a false sense of security that they could make it home country and this gave the were used to warmer and less tidal waters in their home country and this gave them a false sense of security that they could make it a false sense of security that the were used to warmer and less tidal waters in their home country and this gave them a false sense of security that they could make it could make it,' Mr Willis added.