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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 19, 2014 20:25:23 GMT 12
I think people who attempt such stupid things should either pre-pay to be sorted out when it goes wrong, or be left to their own devices! how dumb is this guy? Now he's putting a rescue helicopter crew at risk. I think solo crossings of the Tasman need to be banned, they are stupid, dangerous and only attempted for personal ego.
Mission to rescue stranded kayaker
By: Corazon Miller, Latest Emergency News | Thursday June 19 2014 18:15
A mission is underway to get food and water to a kayaker who's running dry some 350 nautical miles out in the Tasman Sea.
Scott Donaldson left Australia in April on a quest to become the first person to kayak solo across to New Zealand.
However some two weeks out from his goal and he's dangerously low on food and water.
Pilot John Funnel says a team will be heading out from Taupo early tomorrow morning to find the kayaker and drop-off some container loads of food and water.
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Post by baronbeeza on Jun 19, 2014 21:28:12 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Jun 20, 2014 9:28:25 GMT 12
Chopper drops kai to kayakerFunnell will drop the supplies via parachute from the Piper aircraftStory hereAnother journalist ineed of our aircraft ID chart....at least they didn't say it was a Cessna.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 20, 2014 10:09:36 GMT 12
"Light on sponsorship". No bloody wonder. Who would want their company name emblazoned on a venture so foolhardy that it's bound to fail (and has!). Yet another of these selfish types who's out for massive personal glory and when it all goes wrong due to their own poor planning it's up to others to step up and sort them out. Why is this sort of stupidity even allowed to happen? Where is his support boat for a start?? He should never have been allowed to cast off without one.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 20, 2014 10:43:19 GMT 12
I guess one could say that Charles Kingsford Smith was foolhardy for setting out across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Australia.
I guess one could say that John Moncrieff and George Hood were foolish for thinking they could cross the Tasman Sea in an aeroplane.
Ditto Charles Kingsford Smith (not content with a foolhardy crossing of the Pacific, he then set out to cross the Tasman, knowing that others had vanished while attempting it).
And as for Guy Menzies setting out across the Tasman SOLO....absolute madness!!
'nuff said!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 20, 2014 11:38:03 GMT 12
Different, they planned their ventures properly, with proper finances and everything they could do to achieve success was done at that time. This dick didn't even plan for proper provisions to sustain him on the crossing!! Why on earth is he attempting this in winter is a big question. The article states that he's in five metre swells. If he'd had any brains he'd taken a leaf out of the books of those you list above and taken a frigging aeroplane!
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Post by beagle on Jun 20, 2014 12:11:27 GMT 12
Comon Dave, lighten up a wee bit.
There's challenges in life and this guy has decided to try it. Do you think he has decided to do it without asking lots of expert advice and taken on as much provisions as can be. So he's coming up a wee bit short on a few things as it's taken a wee bit longer.
Most challenges have moments where things don't go the way you wish all the time.
Hopefully he gets his supplies dropped to him ok and he carries on to complete the challenge.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 20, 2014 12:24:34 GMT 12
Captain Robert Falcon Scott ran out of supplies and died as a result due to his expedition proving more difficult than expected.
So was he foolhardy?
If nobody ever took any risks, we'd still be living in caves.
I've been "out there on the edge" more than a few times over the decades, including up at the head of the Douglas Valley without a personal locator beacon, or a GPS unit, and that was part of the big adventure cutting oneself off from civilisation like that in extreme terrain where everything could turn totally to custard in the blink of an eye.
We are now obviously living in the "Cotton Wool Age!"
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Post by baronbeeza on Jun 20, 2014 12:25:38 GMT 12
Chopper drops kai to kayakerFunnell will drop the supplies via parachute from the Piper aircraftAnother journalist ineed of our aircraft ID chart....at least they didn't say it was a Cessna. The aircraft I saw on TV was a Piper Comanche, they come in different flavours but the one Brent Ferguson had certainly had long legs. Just like he did with the later Malibu he used the aircraft tio get about much of the South Pacific islands region. I think his may have been a 260hp version, probably about ideal for the size of the machine. EDIT.. Just did a Google and now see that ZK-PMC is indeed a PA24-260. A well suited machine for the task. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 20, 2014 12:53:35 GMT 12
Captain Robert Falcon Scott ran out of supplies and died as a result due to his expedition proving more difficult than expected. So was he foolhardy? Yes. Of course he was. He killed himself and all his men through his utter pigheaded stupidity. Then the British made him a bloody hero! Not at all. Risks can and should be taken when all the correct planning is in place for managing what happens when your risk fails. This twat hasn't done that. He's bailed on into the crossing, found he cannot make it, and got his wife to ring round begging for help. He had no rescue plan obviously, and no rescue budget. If he did he would not be expecting someone else to pay for it. Frankly I think he needs to be charged with extreme negligence. He's just lucky that Mr Funnell is a good enough person to help him out. Why the hell cannot people see common sense any more!? Well since you've done this sort of thing and so far have not ended up on "I Shouldn't Be Alive" then you of all people obviously know the difference between proper planning and care in taking on such an adventure, and completely failing it like this guy has. He should have learned from the people who've done it before - number one disappeared and died through stupidity. Number two and three made it through far better planning and teamwork. |
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Post by beagle on Jun 20, 2014 13:01:15 GMT 12
I will be watching in enthusiasm to see this brave young man arrive back home on our wonderful shores.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 20, 2014 13:12:36 GMT 12
Is he a kiwi??
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Post by beagle on Jun 20, 2014 13:20:05 GMT 12
yep
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Post by alias on Jun 20, 2014 14:51:46 GMT 12
Utter respect for John Funnell, doing what he can to assist without regard to financial considerations.
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Post by shorty on Jun 20, 2014 16:35:21 GMT 12
Well ifhe is a Kiwi Dave will be all for it
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 20, 2014 17:49:00 GMT 12
Not at all Shorty, I think lowly of anyone who puts others at risk through their own stupidity or thoughtlessness, no matter where they are from.
If this guy had gone out in a tinny in bad weather in the Hauraki Gulf without enough petrol to get him back, and no life jacket, for example, and then called for rescue, you'd all agree he was thoughtless and putting rescuers at risk through poor planning. Instead this guy's doing it on a much bigger scale in a much more remote and dangerous body of the sea, run out of his own fuel - food and water through poor planning - and some of you think he's a bloody hero.
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Post by beagle on Jun 20, 2014 18:28:29 GMT 12
Did you see the news tonight on tv.
His onboard desalination device malfunctioned, that's why he was running out of water pouches.
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Post by aeromedia on Jun 20, 2014 18:54:52 GMT 12
Notwithstanding his obviously massive gonads, what's with setting out on something like that with A SMALL CHILD and a Wife back home. If you want to paddle a piddly kayak across a vast ocean, here's an idea, . . . don't have children first that will become potentially fatherless. Jean Batten didn't have any kids.
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Post by jonesy on Jun 20, 2014 19:37:52 GMT 12
Wellllll...technically didnt need SAR, just some mug with a helo to drop out some supplies. And after I'd read about his technical difficulties I can sympathize with him. Still, good luck to him-its all for a good cause, even if some guys end up paying a little more than they'd intended! PS apparently theres a few dozen yummy dolphins frolicking around the area that he could munch on...  |
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Post by oj on Jun 20, 2014 20:18:44 GMT 12
I think his wife has probably re-mortgaged to pay for the Comanche and kit. It won't be just a donation to SAR Services.
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