Boat life - HAMMERHEAD SHARK at island paradise wants our dinner - Ep 121

Boat life – A hammerhead shark wants our catch of the day -Ep 121

We have sailed to the beautiful, tranquil Montebello Islands where Declan, thanks to @SailingZatara, has had a chance to learn to kite board on a foiling board. And he’s ‘got it’ really quickly.
Meanwhile Rob does some hunting and gathering for the family, catches a tasty coral trout but then inadvertently attracts the attention of several sharks to the boat, one of which is a huge hammerhead, who all want a bit of the Mr coral trout too.
Luckily it all ends well and we get the lions share of the fish. Though should we be eating fish in The Montebello’s we ask ourselves? You see the British military tested three nuclear bombs here in the 1950’s yet it still says don’t spend more than an hour at the testing sites, which begs the question how radioactive are the islands? And should we eat that fish?

Music
Kiana – Stand
Kiana – Stand instrumental
Fabio Trentini, Frederico Tich Gava, Matteo Ballerin, Giulia Riboli – Russians (cover version)
David Mumford – Ball and chain

Additional footage of nuclear testing at The Montebellos Islands – War archives

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BACK STORY
In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob decided to row a tiny seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race. His first taste of a blue water ocean crossing.
Skip forward to 2014 and, married with three children, Rob and Rachel purchased Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Rob’s 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel’s non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn 18, Declan 16 and Ivan 13, in tow. Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world.
Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed. www.brothernumberone.co.nz
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