A mother has shared her frantic 999 call as her two daughters were swept out to sea. Milena Smith was visiting Barmouth for the day on August 3 with her husband, Dave, and her two daughters Mabel, 12, and Elsie, 10, when the girls suddenly disappeared in the sea.
Elsie, who had learned to float “like a starfish” in school only weeks before, shouted those instructions to her sister who turned on her back. Milena and Dave, from Birkenhead, heard their girls screaming in the water but couldn’t see them. As Milena rushed to call the coastguard Dave dived into the water to race after the children. In the call Milena is heard telling the operator: “My daughters are drowning”.
She screams at the call handler: “I can’t see them. can’t see them. My children are 10 and 12. I can’t see them anymore. My husband has gone in to try to find them. I can’t see them. I think they are way out of their depths.”
