Boat sunk of cevantees
Submitted by Sam57 on Sat, 2016-08-20 10:28
Heard a 6 meter boat was hit by wave and sunk off Cevantees about 17ks Out both guys ok but we're in water for 7 hours. Lucky or unlucky depends how u look at it. Anyone with any details.
Saulty2
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not for the faint hearted
was going out last saturday 3ks out couldnt believe my eyes saw massive wall of water about 4m.plus standing up and partly breaking , so decided on turning round , made for a waisted trip but IMO Safety first ....
id say they were extremely luky to be rescued
Adam Gallash
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Good call
Good call. Amazing how many people take the chance when its not safe and really not worth it.
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Wookiee
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Yeah Spence!....... geesh
Yeah Spence!....... geesh man.
Yeeeeeehawwwwwww.........
Inches from death....
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Spence
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Been there, done
Been there, done that....haven't we Wookiee
20km Off Cervantes...survived....after nearly tipping boat over vertically trying to get over top, on random breaking wave. Decided bigger boat required.
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Wookiee
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Such a great day.1 more foot
Such a great day.
1 more foot of rotation and we were statistics.
10/10 would fly again.
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Spence
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Still came home with fish
Still came home with fish though...winning.
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meglodon
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That would be a scary sight
Seeing a wave like that so far out would be a scary sight, and character building as they say.
To me it's a very wise person that listens to his brain and not his heart and decides that no fish is worth continuing on in conditions when life is clearly at risk.
Gunner966
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Today?
Today?
timboon
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Waves dont break 17kms
Waves dont break 17kms out!
If the conditions are that bad that you take enough water over the side/ass from a slop to potentially sink you then you definately shouldn't be there to start with....
Swompa
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There are a couple of spots
There are a couple of spots out of Dongera and south where the waves get very steep as they come up the shelf.
Rob H
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Thats Turtle Dove shoal.
Thats Turtle Dove shoal.
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Swompa
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Couldn't remember the name.
Couldn't remember the name. Cheers Rob
Rob H
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gets very shallow, 5 meters
gets very shallow, 5 meters or so from memory
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Wookiee
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Thats quite possibly the
Thats quite possibly the stupidest comment ive seen in weeks.
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meglodon
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Waves don't break 17 Ks out Hmmmm
I think there are a couple of yacht crews who sailed in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race a few years back who will disagree with that statement.
Saulty2
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17ks
thats close to first bank /- second bank ,wonder who rescued them pros?
thesupervisor
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Was at turtle dove a few
Was at turtle dove a few years back at 6pm on charter boat was taking the boat from hillarys to gero
4mtr swell was pretty hetic got some big wahoo but was too dangerous to anchor the night as we had planned
I definitely wouldnt like to be in the water there
Lucky guys
getting the bottom line final answer from a bunch of blokes that use false names and put smiley faces at the end of paragraphs is not the best place in the world to get the information you seek.
dano83
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Troy Carroll and his mate
Troy Carroll and his mate surfed it on there storm surfers movie, looks pretty hectic wasn't a huge day either
scotto
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Troy
Did Troy surf that with with Reece Clarke-jones?
dano83
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Yeah him and Ross
Yeah him and Ross Clarke-Jones surfed it, was a good docco.
beau
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Oh Scotto!
Oh Scotto!
Rob H
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ummm
think that might have been TOM Carroll...
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No sH!t Sherlock predictive
No sH!t Sherlock predictive text on the iPad.....
timboon
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I'll rephrase that, Waves
I'll rephrase that, Waves dont break in "open ocean" unless of course there is a lump that is shallow enough to make it break... There are lumps/bumps & humps, shoals/atolls where of course a wave can come from the depth and break, what happened in the Sydney Hobart isn't caused by a breaking wave.... Take the wind out of it and you loose the affect.
My point is/was they shouldn't have been there to start with.....
Swompa is dead right though if there is a big enough change in the bathymetry then it will lump up but it has to be shallow enough to break ie Cow Bombie out of Gracetown where the biggest waves surfed in the southern hemi takes place most years....
Terry Carrol and David Rhys Jones should come down and surf it one day......
carnarvonite
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Cow Bombie
The bottom comes straight up from 100 feet to 24feet and drops off the same on the inside.
There is another bombie straight in line with the track leading up to Guilderton lighthouse that sometimes breaks in a big swell
dano83
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How far the out
How far the out carnarvonite
carnarvonite
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Chart
Its marked on nav charts, from memory about 4nm
dano83
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Pretty sure they have in
Pretty sure they have in that same storm surfers movie, they have came to wa a few times
scotto
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Yep,
gotta love those 2 cray-zee carnts tony Carroll and Ray Clarke-jones.
dano83
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Yeah they got a sweet life
Yeah they got a sweet life but they have worked for it
and the waves they are riding at there age is insane
scotto
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mad men!
I think keiren slater and rick fanning did a few tow-ins with them as well recently.
absolute madness!
Auslobster
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Reminds me of my surfin' days in the 80's...
...when Tony Curran, Barton Simpson and Mark Octopus were kings!
Paj man
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Lol at all of this!
Lol at all of this!
aka Nick
Rob H
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Scotto
Missed the subtlety further up the thread and I suspect many still are
Dont forget Warren "Rabid" Bartholemew
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hezzy
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very good doco they had
very good doco
they had several scares during their trips to cow bombie
link to one below
hezzy
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/surf-champ-tom-carroll-caught-as-bombie-explodes-off-western-australia/story-e6freuzi-1226087562156
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dodgy
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There is a section that is
There is a section that is known off Exmouth too. Between 100 and 200m of water off tantas. Had close calls twice out there while trolling. First time the swell was quite a bit steeper and just had no back on it. Boat fell straight off the crest sideways.
Second one, same area, swell jacked right up and surged straight into the side of the boat. Hit the side with enough force to crack the gunwale and blow the moulded side pockets out. Filled the boat with water too.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
meglodon
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An experiance like that
Would probably fill the pants as well. Such an experience like that in reasonably deep water would scare the hell out of you, well it would me.
Mattyb84
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+1 on that dodgy myself and
+1 on that dodgy myself and Ben (wanderer) had a large wave land on my head in 400/500 Mtrs out the back of the steps off tantaz a few years back while fighting a blue. Made for a good video had hd video sunglasses on at the time
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timboon
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Question..... Assuming the
Question..... Assuming the swell is SW but the wind is NW...... Which way is this "breaking wave" breaking? I'd bet Nic Natanui's left knee the swell DIDN'T break but it was the chop/slop created from the wind that caused you fella's grief.
It is of course accentuated by the swell.
Zero swell it will be slop from the NW wind blowing
Big swell it will still be slop from the NW wind but this time the situation is more serious because the rise and fall of the swell plus the "breaking slop".
Put a strong offshore on it and it will lump up but not break!
dodgy
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Surge is what I referred to
Surge is what I referred to it as.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
cruisecraft02
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HeheheDont forget bill
Hehehe
Dont forget bill Richards
dodgy
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And old mate Raj Burrows.
And old mate Raj Burrows.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
hezzy
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[And old mate Raj
[And old mate Raj Burrows.]
hes the indian surfer that makes curries out of rabbit hey ??
hezzy
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timboon
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Did you hear about the two
Did you hear about the two indian guys that found a big bag of cocaine washed up ?
They threw a heap into a curry, one of them ended up in a Korma and the other fucked up his Tikka?
mickconn
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Talked to the guy who owned the boat yesterday
18foot Haines with a 90hp. he reckons he was in 27m of water and the boat went end over end. Who knows I guess its a little hard to believe when you haven't seen it for yourself and I haven't. Seen some big lumps of water go past in that depth but nothing breaking maybe I have just been lucky so far.
Rob H
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Sorry, but no matter how big
Sorry, but no matter how big the swell, without wind on it the swell wont break until the depth shallows out.
At the end of the day (naturally excepting waves breaking on shoal/reef etc) ONLY wind by itself makes rough seas.
Other stuff such as tide, current and swell contribute but NONE of those conditions alone make it rough without wind other than if the sea bottom/hydrography (shallow or narrow passage etc).
A rule of thumb is that 1 knot of tide against wind is equivalent to 10 knots breeze, so 1 knot against 10 knots is like 20knots of wind.
Hence why a nor easter is so shit coming home from the islands...
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
sea-kem
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Nicely put Rob, I'm having a
Nicely put Rob, I'm having a hard time swallowing this as waves don't just come out of anywhere in 27m unless near shallow ground as mentioned. Even with a major chop you aren't going to get rollers.
Love the West!
Auslobster
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"Rogue wave"
Insurance companies swallow it every time...hook, line, and sinker.
What they DON'T swallow is: Being too close to breaking reef. Too much horsepower for boat. Going out in predicted poor conditions. Hooning around in metre-high wind chop. Trying to retrieve stuck anchor with ass-end of boat.
Yep, "Rogue Wave". Your safety word when you f#*k up.
sea-kem
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Love the West!