A charity has issued a warning after teenagers were seen "tombstoning" — jumping from the roof of a building into the sea below — a practice that carries a serious risk of injury or death. Tombstoning is dangerous because the depth of water, presence of submerged rocks or debris, and strength of currents are often impossible to judge from height, meaning even experienced swimmers can be badly hurt or killed on impact or after entering the water.

Specific details of the incident, including the location and the charity involved, were not included in the available article text. Safety campaigners have repeatedly cautioned that such jumps, often carried out by young people seeking a thrill or peer approval, have led to spinal injuries, drownings and fatalities around UK coastlines in previous years, and they continue to urge teenagers to avoid the activity.