Just a couple of minutes earlier, on the first full day of a holiday with his wife and anxious to hit the famed Phuket blue water, Boardman had watched the tide off Patong beach recede suddenly.
They include a Briton who was found at low tide hanging off the end of a pier, his feet bound to a rock.
About 20 miles (32km) further west at Dunraven Bay the two people had again been cut off by the tide and were taken off by Llantwit Major Coastguard.
Ultimately, neither they nor nearly anyone else in newspapers found a way to hold off the tide.
Nine adults were rescued after being cut off by the tide at Worms Head on Gower on Saturday.
The Coastguard and Maritime Agency said it is alerted to "a lot" of people being cut off by the tide.
Egypt's fractious liberals are deeply sceptical of the military, but may revert to accepting a further dose of military dictatorship to stave off the Islamist tide, at least for a while.
During the summer many people were rescued after getting cut off by the tide and activities such as coasteering - swimming, jumping and scrabbling around sections of coastlines - saw Brixham Coastguard called out to a variety of incidents.
But book sales of all sorts are dropping off, and, for the most part, online is not making up the difference, particularly if the publisher happened to be caught off guard when the tide changed.
I'd set off early in the morning but I had to wait for the tide to be high and the weather.
On a day when more recession woes had the Dow off almost 300 points, Wal-Mart shares swam against the tide with a 3.7% gain.
And unlike most of their East Coast counterparts--who commonly dredge submerged shellfish beds from boats--Puget Sound oyster growers typically seed beds in tidal shelves right off the beaches, and walk out to tend them and harvest when the tide is down.
As there is no harbour, the boats are launched off the beach, allowing Mr Williams about four hours at sea depending on the tide.
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