SAFETY INFORMATION

MURPHY'S LAW SITUATIONS

• Engine breaks down when crossing a bar
• Engine breaks down in water too deep to drop anchor
• Boat breaks down when out of radio range
• Boat swamped off shore
• Boat run over by passing ship
• Boat capsized off-shore
• Boat capsized in bar
• Boat swamped in bar
• Gear dropped overboard
  
• Transom & engine fall off boat (boat sunk)
  
• Sharks gnawing on boat
  
• Running out of fuel
  
• Bad visibility down to 100m
  
• Wind springs up causing huge seas
  
• Swell comes up and closes bar
  
• Stings/bites cause skipper incapacitation
• Encounter a broken down vessel
  
• Tow a vessel through a bar
  
• Divers below and unmanned boat drifts away
  
• Boat swamped and sunk whilst divers below
  
• Boat stolen whilst divers below
  
• Anchor gets stuck on a reef
  
• Loss of anchor (drifting in heavy seas)
  
• Seasickness
  
• Injury on board
  
• Fire on board
  
• Person overboard
  
• Hitting a turtle
  
• Gear malfunction
  
• Beached on a reef
  
• Temporarily unsure of position (lost)
  
•  'Oft heard quote in the boating fraternity': "Ah, the joys of boating"