Storm Ciaran hits Lyme Regis (drone clips) - 2nd November 2023

[@hadorstapa]

That’s a really effective harbour. Even with waves breaking over the wall, most of the moored vessels are bobbing quite safely

[@JMH7506]

The Cobb is doing exactly what it was built for. Wonderful video of my hometown. We have seen huge storms in Lyme over the decades and come out the other side.

[@sianwarwick633]

Thanks for that information

[@MATDOORS]

Wow YOUR HOME TOWN? That is amazing, thanks so much for sharing that with us......

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

indeed you have, including 1987....

[@PW-CreakySaddle]

grew up here too between 1980 and 1990

[@TemPer-MenTal_mafkr]

Definitely a strong Wall. That water is quite powerful. Smart building!!

[@joanhuggett5164]

Well done, James, great drone footage. We first read about the Cobb at Lyme in Persuasion then watched "Ciaran" Hinds and other cast members walk along it. It's fantastic to see this now. Thanks for sharing it with us. ATB from Western Australia.

[@debbiecarter6430]

It’s also used to great effect in the film of the French Lieutenant’s Woman.

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

Is that the scene in which he falls in?

[@someblokecalleddave1]

Top notch drone work. Drones have totally changed the way we visualise natural phenomena, especially it seems when the sea or ocean are involved. Drone footage of surfing for instance is incredible when done well offering unbelievable perspectives that a stills camera just cannot match, although Mike Moir images of surfing shot with his camera on a pole were impressive in the 1980's and 90's. But drones take the whole thing to a new level.

[@carlosonliones202]

? What are you talking about?

[@someblokecalleddave1]

Videography and photography - how it's changed in the last 20 years beyond comprehension. @@carlosonliones202

[@gramail2009]

There's a few places along the south coast that could take a lesson in building effective sea defences from the Cobb at Lyme Regis!

[@andrearoyd2942]

Thank you for sharing, pretty amazing. Have visited often, the shear scale of the waves against the Cobb

[@ScottFleckenstein-n3e]

Spectacular! Thank you for sharing this.

[@heffone1]

wow a mini 3 amazing

[@Agt-Fox-Mulder]

that DJI Mini 3pro drone is a awesome little drone..superb footage James well done

[@outdoorsy01]

Fantastic footage!

[@Umski]

Pretty impressive that the drone is able to fly with such stability considering the wind and gusts 👍

[@nicknelson9450]

Read the description.

[@reubydo]

It wasn't windy the storm had passed by then

[@rogercude1459]

​@charleswhite758😂

[@siameseblue4824]

Beautiful thank you.

[@WrittlesCave]

Great shout. You risked your drone for some amazing scenes!

[@lindsayrogers6690]

Wow! Thanks for posting this remarkable footage. It wouldn’t only have been the French lieutenant that swept Meryl Streep off her feet.

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

I didn't read your post and posted something similar, so deleted it 😂😂. Great minds and all that.

[@mikesmithwick1570]

Nice work James, never seen it like that before!

[@lovemussb1940]

Beautiful,I love a good storm

[@sianwarwick633]

People lost their houses

[@lovemussb1940]

@@sianwarwick633 I’m saying the waves look stunning

[@henrycastle1]

Shows how good harbour is❤

[@carolwebber8158]

Incredible scenes. What a lovely place Lyme Regis is. The inner harbour looks safe thankfully.

[@crisdeeming2758]

That is wot it was built for.imagine climate change 100s of years ago.praise be to greta.

[@northernlights6459]

Amazing footage. Thank you.

[@PhilipMurphy8Extra]

Beautiful thanks

[@cyberherbalist]

Wow! That's something I wanted to do, but wussed out. Thanks for risking it for me! Brilliant video!

[@geoffharveymusic]

Amazing storm footage.❤

[@eckosters]

Beautiful: lots of new fossils will be found after this!

[@TheTubeTube2]

How remarkably steady the shots are and what a sight!

[@ianstobie]

Wow. Beautiful!

[@ApocalypseofMichael]

What a great little harbour!

[@billienomates1606]

That is one impressive drone to be out in that and so stable.

[@fransluiten253]

Amazing to see the strength of nature

[@carolnurse5454]

Thank for sharing I was watching on webcam

[@simongleaden2864]

Whenever I hear or read "Lyme Regis", I always think of the book and film The French Lieutenant's Woman.

[@stanleysdad]

Wow! We visited Lyme Regis that afternoon and walked along the cobb

[@martinthatsall1518]

Superb quality video. Keep up the good work!

[@leonwilks4114]

Fantastic footage cheers pilot

[@86themadhatter27]

Whoever helped build that should be very proud.

[@marloncole]

Wow - it gives the strong impression that the place is under siege from the sea! Excellent coverage

[@sianwarwick633]

It is. Climate change

[@andrewonmyway8184]

Amazing drone footage. Must be a big one you have for those winds

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

I’m guessing a Matrice in those conditions

[@christianburch479]

Amazingly it is a Mini 3 Pro according to the description.

[@alexandermatheson4779]

Very little wind there by the looks of it !

[@jamesloveridgephotography]

@@christianburch479that’s right! A 249 gram Mini 3 Pro. It was incredibly still which I wasn’t expecting. A little windier at West Bay when I flew around an hour later but it still coped. Didn’t even need the Mavic

[@christianburch479]

@@jamesloveridgephotography Do you know what the wind speed was? I think that drone is rated at 11 m/s (40kph). Great filming, very impressive.

[@ach_komm_geh]

hardcore drone ^^

[@edc1569]

Pleased your drone made it!

[@80sLiving]

Fantastic footage, Nice one

[@daivapetrikaite]

Amazing 😮

[@paddypersonal2872]

I fly a drone too. I'd love to capture the low wind and fantastic wave action at the same time. Kudos!

[@woof3065]

Amazing that wall is just barely enough to keep those ships safe

[@mangore623]

Well, the boats aren’t even moving…and the large structure isn’t even getting wet by the waves, so it looks like the barrier is doing an exceptionally good job. Just one of those waves would wipe out the lot of them, had the barrier not been there.

[@markmiller6402]

Great footage

[@davidgriffiths7696]

Well done, that’s the way to do it.

[@tonimor9721]

Flying a drone in that wind ! wow

[@Marketingmagician]

Impressive. The cob doing its job superbly well.

[@annaparry4045]

I’m amazed that you could get the drone up and control it in that weather!

[@desoconnor7445]

Magnificent ….can I write some music for this video ?

[@PW-CreakySaddle]

used to go fishing off the Pier for polack and the North wall for garfish when weather good

[@CheshireCat6639]

Jeeze scary but fascinating to watch, thank god for the wave breakers🌊🌊. Ty for staring ❤

[@dorsetdumpling5387]

Great video: tonight, I’ll imagine myself in the loft of one of those buildings on the Cobb, cut off until the storm subsides, just a candle for comfort (while it lasts) but secure in the knowledge that the Cobb and the buildings have weathered worse storms…

[@ebikecnx7239]

It used to house the Aquarium. Does it still?

[@katiekitchen895]

@@ebikecnx7239 yes. Only place Ive ever seen dogfish and seahorses give birth from mermaids purses and eggs herded by father seahorse.

[@liborsionko]

Awesome

[@mishamandrake1677]

I walked across the top of that wall on the 5th of October, it was a beautiful sunny day and i didnt like being up there then 😮

[@stephensmith799]

Wonderful civil engineering👍

[@123boat]

This will go viral 👏

[@tbrowniscool]

It's incredible your Mini 3 is so stable!! Have you heard about the 120m height thing in the European Union?

[@carolinelawrie7142]

The guys who designed and built the Cobb really knew what they were doing 😊

[@NicolasValentinScotland]

Those drones are quite good

[@millimetreperfect]

ish!

[@elaineyoung9672]

Drone technology is fabulous and has given us a birds eye view, but the old technology that built the Cobb is much more impressive 😂 it protects Lyme under its sheltering arm so amazingly well.

[@DavidCarncross]

Bearing in mind that this version of the Cobb was built in 1826, it’s done very well hasn’t it?

[@TheLebbs2001]

Wow great footage your bravery is impressive i wont fly my done if the is a. Breeze let alone a storm good work

[@markgadsby5568]

James, that last shot was awesome. I’ve just bought a Mini 3 Pro and am interested if you used an ND filter and what settings you used; it is very effective!

[@robertwilson123]

Oh I know the Cobb very well, on the top, it would have been fatal up there in this footage.

[@badfairy9554]

look at the size of the boats.

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

Lyme Regis lifeboat was launched on service during the storm.

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Great video. Was it hard to control the U.A.V?

[@jamesloveridgephotography]

Not windy at all surprisingly and this drone weighs just 249 grams!

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

@@jamesloveridgephotography you did a good job. I thought it was a Matrice, well done.

[@kaxar6954]

I need to visit this part of England soon. London is just not inspiring it for me. I love the coastal views.

[@Rick-sanches1]

Bodey is put there Roding those waves.

[@clevm002]

How come the drone is so still yet the wind was so bad ?!

[@robertwarren4734]

Watch out Miss Louisa Musgrove!

[@sianwarwick633]

Very high seas

[@flower-ss2jt]

This was how battered the Cobb is at low tide -imagine the waves at high tide?

[@stevepitts7998]

This was at high tide as per the description 'Captured on Thursday 2nd November 2023 at high tide (9am) at Lyme Regis' . The harbour behind the Cobb usually dries out at low tide.

[@the_grand_tourer]

You must have been on the edge of it's wind speed ability? Or had the wind died off?

[@J1122]

Could you add a mic to the drone for sound?

[@korma9732]

No wind issues?

[@moonshinepz]

Nice one. what were the winds like? Doesn't seem to windy. Obviously drone handled it well. think the worst gusts (according to windy)my mini2 has managed is 35mph, and that was struggling in normal mode, had to use sport to get back home 😬

[@markcross6864]

Just the cobb doing its job.

[@DroneAJKnights]

Brave pilot lol

[@marcinmichalak7001]

What drone u using?

[@celticmugwump]

All I can think about is the amount of fossils that would have been released from the surrounding coastline cliffs, wish I had been able to be there when the storms broke 😊

[@debbiecurtis4021]

Will sections of cliff collapse, revealing new fossils?

[@thierrybo6304]

If you can fly a drone, then it was not a terrible storm

[@jamesloveridgephotography]

It moved south otherwise the waves could have been double the size. Gusts of about 80mph last night but the waves peaked this morning

[@robertday8619]

Never a truer word spoken!!!!

[@dereksawle]

wow, good to see the breakwater doing its job

[@SPd.Triple]

Wow how'd you manage that footage in all that wind?

[@Headwind-1]

Hm looks like an a ground sea to me . . .

[@MrRRHHMM]

iom should be named Storm SWAMP.

[@peteryates381]

The French Lieutenants woman.!

[@activepaws6919]

Think of those fossils wow

[@tungstenkid2271]

Amazing, a video without some clown trying to walk along a breakwater in a storm..:)

[@robinnicholas7867]

Seen bigger waves in my bath

[@crisb3631]

Lucky it wasn’t high tide

[@keirreeves766]

Tame, high tide & a bit of a storm, no climate crisis here.

[@johnross2924]

The problem isn't the sea going where it shouldn't go. The problem is humans building where they shouldn't build!

[@lafonevc5663]

French lieutenants woman is under there somewhere.

[@veronical.lianmaseras4543]

World temperature has dropped for past 18 years, go figure?

[@reubydo]

Nice place shame about the price of beer and locals

[@TP_LANDSCAPE_PHOTOGRAPHY]

❤ That was brave Which Drone ? I am sure it was very windy M8 lol Troy @troypointerphotography

[@jamesloveridgephotography]

A 249 gram heavy Mini 3 Pro. There was basically no wind at all. It had picked up by the time I got to West Bay down the coast but the Mini still managed it fine!