Grieving dad of Scott Ferries hopes his son's Loch Doon death can prevent more tragedies

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A grieving Ayrshire dad hopes his son’s Loch Doon death can prevent more tragedies.Scott Ferries, 24, from Ayr died after his kayak capsized and he was thrown into the freezing waters last Sunday.Despite trying to resuscitate him for over an hour pals and mercy crews were unable to save him.Dad James Ferries has paid tribute to his “one in a million” son as he vowed to make the popular sun spot safer so no parent goes through any more heartache.The dad, who worked with Scott in his Somerset Garage in Ayr, has told how poor phone signals and lack of safety equipment could have contributed to his son’s death.The 51-year-old told Ayrshire Live: “There isn’t enough being done there to help anybody who gets into trouble.“There is a terrible phone signal up there, there were problems with it on the day.“When my nephew called me to tell me what happened I really struggled to hear what he was saying.“It was a very brief broken phone call, he put me on to one of the officers who was there.“We never even waited until he phoned back, we went straight down to Loch Doon.“On the way there I was just telling myself ‘please give him a pulse, I don’t want him to be dead.”James arrived in rows of emergency vehicles parked along the road up to the loch as his worst fears were quickly confirmed.Now his family are wanting to raise extra cash to purchase safety buoys which can be thrown to a person in the water who is in danger.James added: “Scott’s big brother James Junior has thought of the idea to have life buoy rings around Loch Doon every March 27 in memory of Scott.“The quicker that they are up there the more chance they have of saving somebody.