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Dad found dead off Scots coast told wife ‘he’d be fine’ hours before drowning after lifejacket failed
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A dad-of-three who drowned off the coast of Scotland during a solo sailing holiday told his worried wife that ‘he’d be fine’ just hours before his body was found by a fisherman. Bryn Watkins was enjoying his ‘last sail of the season’ on his yacht - Athena 2 - when he began experiencing engine problems near the Isle of Bute on October 18 last year.
The 74-year-old, from Kidderminster, near Birmingham, decided to try to sail to Port Bannatyne marina where he would attach the vessel to a buoy, Worcestershire Coroner's Court heard. His grieving wife Jenny said she'd been in constant touch with her husband by phone but he told her to “stop worrying about him" and that "he'd be fine".
Birmingham Live reports that the following morning at around 8am, a fisherman found the experienced sailor’s body in the water with the yacht and its dingy ‘beached’ nearby. Sergeant Christopher Dibbs, based at Rothesay Police Station, was called out to the scene and said Mr Watkins' life jacket had not inflated.
The fisherman reported the yacht must have been on the bay since 2am due to the state of the tide. A post mortem found the cause of death was drowning and showed that Mr Watkins had signs of hypothermia.
Widow Mrs Watkins said: "There was a newer lifejacket on the boat but he preferred the one he usually wore. The lifejacket should have inflated on impact but didn't. Bryn was an optimistic man and wanted to sail and I don't know if he'd serviced the lifejacket that year. I did nag him about these things."
The court heard there was no evidence that the lifejacket Mr Watkins was found in had been examined. The family said they were trying to get it returned to them from police in Scotland.
Mrs Watkins added: "Bryn was generally a happy,
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