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Bramble bank cricket match 2013
The Bramble Bank, otherwise known simply as "The Brambles" is an arrowhead-shaped sandbar in the central Solent which is uncovered at low water spring tides. At other times it presents either a significant navigational hazard or a useful escape from the strong Solent tides. The bank is moving very slowly westward. It is marked at its southeastern limit by the Brambles post sea mark and on its western limit by the West Knoll buoy.
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- Bramble bank cricket match 2013
- Living on the island bramble bank cricket match
- AccidentsEdit
- In popular cultureEdit
- References
The Brambles post has comprehensive weather and sea state monitoring equipment which is relayed in realtime to a website.
The Bramble Bank is renowned for the annual cricket match held there, when the Royal Southern Yacht Club (RSrnYC) play the Island Sailing Club. The match takes place when the bank is exposed but never lasts very long before the tide returns. The undulating surface with large puddles ensures it is more a social occasion than a serious cricket match, and the scoring reflects this - the victor of the game is pre-determined, and the two clubs simply take it in turns to "win" the match, regardless of play. The penultimate match was held on 31 August 2015, the RSYC won. The most recent was played on September 18, 2016. According to The Times (page 12, September 20, 2016) "The Island Yacht Club narrowly beat the Royal Southern Yacht Club".
The Brambles cricket match has been described as "quintessentially English" and has even drawn the attention of a House of Commons Standing Committee, when it was mentioned as a light-hearted example of an event which falls geographically between the boundaries of two different licensing authorities.
Living on the island bramble bank cricket match
AccidentsEdit
On Tuesday 11 November 2008, on approaching Southampton Docks for her last visit prior to retirement, the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2 ran aground on the Bramble Bank at approximately 0530 hrs. She required four tugs to pull her clear on the rising tide and arrived in Southampton approximately 90 minutes late.
On 3 January 2015 the car transporter MV Höegh Osaka was beached on the bank after developing a list. A 200-metre maritime exclusion zone was put into in place around the ship until the salvage operation took place, and airspace below 2,000 ft was also closed to aircraft within 1 mile (1.6 km). She was refloated on the rising tide on the 7th of January 2015, and was towed 2 miles east of the bank and moored between East Cowes and Lee on the Solent to await further salvage operations.
Shortly before 10pm on 13 February 2016 the 368 m (1,207 ft) container ship APL Vanda ran aground on the bank. Several tugs and crew from Calshot lifeboat station attended and, within a couple of hours, the ship was refloated on the rising tide.
In popular cultureEdit
Bramble Bank is shown and labelled on maps of the Solent in Ship Simulator 2008 and Ship Simulator Extremes, but doesn't pose any threat to the player due to an absence of low tide in those games.