weir

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"Why didn't you tell them it was there because I'm damned sure Nicola wouldn't have got on that water… you don't go over a weir on a paddleboard."

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025

At 08:56, kneeling on her SUP, Lloyd was the first to descend the fish pass in the centre of the weir and was swept quickly downriver.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025

Lloyd's company Salty Dog had organised the excursion in which Paul O'Dwyer, Andrea Powell, Morgan Rogers and Nicola Wheatley drowned at a weir in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

Within about a minute, the next six paddleboarders descended the weir.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

Desperate, he thought of running to the weir to fish her out from there, but the water was an opaque muddy green.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan