Miracle at Mana?

[Lou Girardin]

Bad news lou. It was a rugby team.

Was it?
Bloody alzheimers.

[2much]

I invite you to try out to become a Diver in the Navy, some other positions have been dampened down by lefty PC type people who dont like the hard honest truth, but divers aint one of them.

How many army people that have taken the course have passed? ummm none, you have to be a special type of hard to pass muster as a diver.

No shit shirlock.... but Divers are a very small subsidiary of the Navy. I'm talking about the Navy overall. Infact I've seen alot of these changes in just 8 yrs.

BTW, he's actually a CPOSCS, as well as a ships diver. Not a full Navy Diver.

[sAsLEX]

I'm talking about the Navy overall. Infact I've seen alot of these changes in just 8 yrs.

opps sorry bout that, seen it a bit in my 4 and a bit odd years as well, but alas not enough stripe on my shoulder to do anything about it just yet....

[2much]

Ahahaha, that'll be the way to be remembered:

"The man who brought back the crack"

Goodluck with that, unfortunately as society changes (read: becomes a bunch of soft cock, tree hugging, lovey dovey hippies) so too must the Pus. Shit sucks arse tho.

[MidnightMike]

How could you say that! Racist!

He does kinda look like one tho.
Still great/unbelievable news
Its puts a smile on my dial

[Shadows]

And yeah, Kina would have been a challenge for me, but the crays'd be alright. I'll be interested to hear why he didn't/counldn't swim ashore to Mana Island.

I'd have thought swimming ashore and lighting a fire of making some message in the sand would be the go...? That being said - he was survival trained in the forces (if memory serves) so I expect there is a good reason

I've done a whole heap of diving in my time and 90% of it on this coast. On one of the first dives I entered the water on an outgoing tide and surfaced 45 minutes later over a km south and half a km out from where I started out.
The only saving grace was that we were close to the mainland so we had a far bigger island to drift past and miss landing on than Mana Island. Otherwise I probably wouldn't be typing this. Very very very long swim back with full gear on, going with the tide obviously, so it was quite a long walk back too!!

Was very careful not to let that happen again.

When that tide is moving you're buggered trying to swim anywhere it isn't taking you. It really rips past, something to do with the Cook Strait and the contours of the seabed through there. The back of Mana Island is far enough from the mainland that when you get caught in the tide you're either headed North for the back of Kapiti Island or South for the Kaikoura's and there is piss all you can do about it except paddle on some sort of diagonal with the current. The problem is that 6 hours later the tide just sends you back again.

Swimming to shore, even though it didn't look that far on TV, wouldn't really have been an option but I'd say he would have tried.

[bladez]

hmmmmm i think something is fishy there what happend to his safty gear eg his whistle and saugage and why didnt the boaty look around the island as he should know the currents etc so thats just my view on this but bloody good to see him alive