Mumbles: Digger left on beach swamped by high tide

Mumbles: Digger left on beach swamped by high tide

The excavator became stranded after a mechanical failure.

Digger ends up submerged by the tide on beach at Mumbles

It wasn't supposed to happen

Digger gets stranded in the sea off Mumbles

Excavator stranded in the sea off Mumbles. Photo by John Britton Richard Youle, local democracy reporter Time and tide wait for no man, or digger for that matter. This machine became submerged in the sea off Mumbles on May 18 and hasn’t moved since. Its presence is part of a £14 million upgrade of the seawall between Verdi’s restaurant and the Oystermouth Square car park. But whether it lives to excavate another day remains to be seen. Passersby…