Tom, who works at the Lido in Cheltenham, said: “Throughout the day, the water didn’t get obviously more unsafe, it just happened quickly”.
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Both the Dungeness and Rye Harbour lifeboats have been launched along with the coastguard helicopter.
MP Gorden Marsden has also blamed local government cuts for the lack of lifeguards on beaches.
The five young men had gone to the coast for a day trip from London.
Satthiyanathan Arumukam, 51, the father of brothers Kenigan and Kobi, said: ‘There were no lifeguards on the beach where they died.
“We believe they are all in their late teens and early 20s and come from the Greater London area”.
He and four other men were pulled from the sea on Wednesday afternoon but died, despite efforts to save their lives.
The bodies of the two other victims were discovered at around 8pm when the tide went out on the seven-mile beach where thousands of holidaymakers had spent the hottest day of the year.
Rother District Council said: “This will provide reassurance to the public”.
Beach-goers watched on in horror as they were pulled, one-by-one, from the sea by emergency crew.
Patrols are now in place at Camber Sands in the wake of the deaths.
“And there are no massive rip currents.
At the time, I was intrigued as to what was actually happening, as I hadn’t seen the men at sea, but after watching the news and hearing about articles on the Internet, it made me very sad and scared for the people and how it can happen to absolutely anyone at any time”.
Dramatic: Camber Sands from the air.
Mr Ravi’s family were “very angry” at the lack of response to the death of Brazilian Gustavo Silva Da Cruz, 19, at Camber last month. “You could see the vast change and how easy it is to get caught up in a riptide”.
Up to 25,000 people can be found on the beach at its most popular periods, said a Rother District Council spokesperson.
Mr Ravi’s younger brother, Ajirthan, 19, said: ‘There wasn’t any lifeguards cruising around, because they would have quickly noticed these boys drowning, and could have at least saved their lives’.
“From that point they tried to save themselves by swimming. back – they are good swimmers – but the problem is the tide was strong so that they couldn’t swim back”.
“I think it would be quite hard to have a lifeguard here with so many thousands of people here and such a large beach (but) I suppose it would be good to have a station here”.
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Ravi also questioned why they weren’t any lifeguards present on a day in which thousands of people were in attendance at the beach.
