Overview

• Kane Edwards went into the River Tawe with a friend after school in May 2022 near Swansea Enterprise Park and failed to resurface.
• A passer-by was alerted by the friend, triggering a multi-agency search in fast-running, murky water.
• Rescuers located him about an hour later, with a firefighter reporting a tree on the riverbed pinning him, and he could not be resuscitated.
• Testimony said currents beneath the surface ran faster than at the surface, hindering crews and nearly sweeping some responders away.
• The hearing heard responders were initially sent to the wrong spot after a location app failure, a point the coroner probed as the two-day inquest continues.