I've just seen on the BBC I player thingy, so a bit belatedley, the prog about the guy who attempted to Kyak from Tasmania (I think it was) to New Zealand (well it was late and I was tired), 1600 miles or so through some of the most treacherous roughest water in the world. My point is, I think he was rather selfish; near the end of the trip the craft got hit by a wave and flooded and it looks like by that time he was too weak to do anythng about it, his body was never found. He leaves a small young son to now grow up without a father and a wife without a husband, I realise the temptation must have been hard to resist but I think he should not have succumbed to his great desire to do this trip, what do others think?
Fatal Trip
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I'm normally all for freedom of the individual to take risks. However, the treacherous southern oceans far from land are no place for a canoe of any sort and that trip does seem exceptionally foolhardy.
So I agree that with a child and wife to consider, not a fair risk to take and it would have been better to have sacrificed his ambition.
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So I agree that with a child and wife to consider, not a fair risk to take and it would have been better to have sacrificed his ambition.
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