Holidaymakers watched in horror today as five drowned men were pulled from the sea on the hottest day of the year so far.
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A search is under way for a third person missing at the East Sussex beach.
Past year 168 people died in United Kingdom waters – 50% of the people who died did not expect to get wet when they got into trouble, Mr Macleod said.
Although the men were pulled from the water, all three died later, the Telegraph reported.
Clutching her brother’s T-shirt, Mr Ravi’s sister Mayura said the family felt anger that the stretch of beach where they died had not been blocked off following 19-year-old Brazilian Gustavo Silva Da Cruz’s death.
Mckayla Bruynius died at Bristol Children’s Hospital on Tuesday night, having been caught by a large wave at Fistral beach in Newquay, Cornwall, last Friday.
Councillor Sally-Ann Hart, cabinet member for public realm, culture and tourism and ward member for Eastern Rother on Rother District Council, was asked by Sky News why there were no lifeguards on the beach.
The father of two brothers who were killed said he’s convinced they’d still be alive if a lifeguard had been on patrol.
On the petition, she said: “Camber Sands gets unbelievably busy during summer time”, adding: “I feel (they) could save lives”.
Formal identification has not taken place but police believe the men were in their early teens and late 20s. Safety can come to be embedded in the culture of tourism or parkland recreation teams, for example”, said Walker, “But in other areas it might just be a bolt on to another job, and as a result you get people who are either so pushed that they have two other things to do or they don’t fully understand what they are doing.
“Nitharsan was a really nice guy, very caring with his family”, he said.
“Being a lifeguard, it made me fear for the people even more because I know the panic and shock that people can get into when in danger in the water”.
One eye-witness, Natalja Taylor, 30, who was on a day-trip with her husband, said police were driving up the beach with a loudhailer urging people to stay out of the sea. “We had kids here and we were anxious about them”.
Chief Superintendent Di Roskilly, of Sussex Police, said: “This has been an incredibly tragic incident and we are offering their next of kin support at this hard time and our thoughts are with them”.
Richard Tollett, lifeboat operations manager at the RNLI in Rye Harbour, confirmed one body was found on the beach and one in the water.
Three men died after they “got into difficulties in the water” at about 2.15pm, despite the efforts of emergency services and others on the beach.
More people have started visiting who may not be familiar with the area, they added.
He said: “We’ve risk assessed the beaches there, working with the council. People are calling me saying how could it have happened”.
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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.
