08-18-2012, 07:28 PM
Dad knew how to swim (he had been a life guard for several summers in NY) if that was required getting over the Sieg River.
So he was a collegue Today I spent some hours on the Rhine between Remagen and Bonn with a big combined rescue exercise of DLRG (German Life Saving Society), Wasserwacht (the water rescue department of the Red Cross) and THW (a german federal agency, doing the same as combat engineers but without combat), and that's why I have not found so much time for research and posting the last days.
The Sieg River is normally about 75 cm deep at the bridge shown one page back, but at some places noticeably deeper, and some times particularly in winter or spring she (it?) has high water.
Christoph