a chinese migrant who'd been collecting cockles in morecambe bay.hemselves cut off by the tide. it sparked a huge search and rescue effort. we have visual of one person only at this stage on a sandbank. 23 ended up drowning. 20 years on, the community here in morecambe has come together to remember and reflect. it was such a dark day in the history of morecambe bay and one of the sad things was at the time we didn't even know who those people were. you know, i still think about what it must have felt like. it must have been awful. and, you know, we care. we don't want that to happen again. i feel very thankful for the people, you know. i couldn't believe they still remember this 23 lives. you know, they never met. you see, the support you saw here today is very, very good, you know? there's more than 100 people from all parts of the community who've come together here on the beach in morecambe to make sure that those tragic events of 20 years ago are never forgotten. there are nowjust 150 individuals who are licensed to commercially gather cockles i