Night swimmer

Got a phone call at 10 pm last night from the local coppers asking if we could get a rescue boat out to the jetty. Seems some one fell in while fishing and his mates had lost sight of him.

Anyway, no sooner than I'd arranged for a crew member to meet me at the boat when they rang back to say he'd managed to get to the ladder and his mates pulled him out. Bet he'd had eyes as big as dinner plates looking for the ladder and looking for the tigers that usually haunt the area at night.

It was a good feeling when I rang the decky cancelling the call out because it would have been in crap conditions with it blowing around 20-25 knots and in water that is again a dirty brown colour plus the recent search for the still missing prawn trawler decky in the back of our minds.


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Good result to hear John, did

Wed, 2011-10-19 21:49

Good result to hear John, did his mates follow the shit streak in the water?!

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Me!!

Wed, 2011-10-19 21:54

If it was me all I would have had to do was turn around and climb up on the pile of shit behind me and walk back to the jetty. Would have been like jet propulsion with solids

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GOOD STUFF DAD

Wed, 2011-10-19 22:50

it is good to see he got out safe and sound

 

 thanks DAD

 

   jeff

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Lol would have been shitting

Wed, 2011-10-19 22:53

Lol would have been shitting his pants no lights there at night not to mention the sharks

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Bet he won't do that

Thu, 2011-10-20 01:34

Bet he won't do that again in a hurry John. Good no one was hurt.....

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Thu, 2011-10-20 05:23

Alls well that ends well. Good to see you were ready to go if needed.

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