MAYDAY AT REMOTE ISLAND - Scariest moment sailing the world on a catamaran - Near death Freediving
November 25, 2023 by The Cruising Kiwis | Language: EN Play Time: 00:00:29:00 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
THANKSGIVING TRAGEDY – Sailing family save son from freedive DROWNING at remote island
With all forms of diving there are inescapable risks, unfortunately, on this occasion the thrill of the challenge may have clouded our vision.
While sailing our liveaboard sailboat through the beautiful, tropical, south Thailand islands, we encounter a near fatal free diving accident. Our son Finn experienced a deep water blackout, or in layman’s terms passed out underwater while surfacing from a 30m, 100ft free dive with no fins. Luckily is father had been keeping an eye on him, spotted him unconscious seven metres below the surface and, together with Finn’s brothers, worked as a family to drag Finn back to safety, where they applied CPR until Finn regained consciousness. However, that was only the beginning of this freediving nightmare.
In search of clear blue water for free diving and some windy days for kite surfing we instead discovered perished kite bladders and the inside of a hospital room.
Freediving is a form of underwater diving that relies on breath holding until resurfacing rather than using breathing apparatus such as scuba diving.
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In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob rowed a tiny 7m (22 foot) plywood boat 2,500 miles from Tenerife (Canary Islands) to Barbados (Caribbean). It took six weeks for Rob and rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, to complete winning the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.
Skip forward to 2014 and, married with three children, Rob and his wife 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 their boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn (then 13), Declan (then 11) and Ivan (then 8), in tow. Through trial and error we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
The 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 hope to retrace 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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