28th August 2009... Justin was 25 years old 2 months...
He was on he way on a boat in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO TIOMAN...
He was somewhat involved with strings of briefings till he was extremely tired.. And he decided to walk towards the bow(front) to retire for the night..
With water bottle on one hand and his wind breaker on the other, he walked along the side of the boat without holding on to the railing.. Probably due to his overcomplacency...
Suddenly, the boat rocked slightly. Due to the slow reaction time from the lack of sleep. Justin suddenly found himself floating on the water! Seeing the boat cruised past him..
Just as the boat was about to pass him completely, a realisation suddenly set in that he was overboard. However, panic was not present because of his lack of sleep. Instead, he just shout twice. Fortunately, one of the crew on board heard the distress call, which stunted him.. Upon realising the situation, he immediately called out to the boatman to stop the boat.
The boat came to a halt about 100m away from Justin.
At this point in time, eveyone on board were panicking. Spot light was on and small torchs started to shine from the boat. Everyone was awaken by the incident. None expected such to happen. Nevertheless, a real case has occured. Man was indeed overboard!! Almost everyone were frantically trying to locate Justin in the dark waters.
On Justin's side, thinking that he was already spotted by the people on board because the boat was moving towards him, he got busy to create floatation device for himself. He used his 1/4 filled water bottle as a float while zipping up his wind-breaker to convert into a float. Since, this was not an easy fleat, he was entirely oblivious of the fact that he was not seen by those on-board yet. It was only after he complete his floatation device that he shouted to those on board again. Only after that was he spotted.
Thus, the boat locked on to him and approached towards him. He was subsequently rescued, but with heavy losses in terms of material processions.
After the rescue, and everyone on board accounted for, the boat continued its journey to Tioman with everyone fully awake, recovering from the trama of man-overboard....
Irony:
Real man-overboard situation on a trip where rescue couse was ongoing.. Really woke everyone up...
Valuables loss for Justin:
Wallet fully soaked
Passport crumpled
Handphone flooded till unrevivable
Car romote alarm key damaged
Really expensive loss......
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3 comments:
Oi fren, lucky nothing happened to you! Anyway heard something interesting. Is it PADI standards to do night rescue scenario. Someone was telling other divers that it was a night rescue scenario over the weekend in Dayang, you know. Wow, you damn pro leh become victim at night!
Hahaha...
A little off the track..
But to dispel the myth, I really fell off the boat in the middle of the night due to the lack of sleep.. And i am honest to admit that...
It is not any drill or whatsoever..
hei...from what i gather, you seem to offend a lot of people out there with the thing you post. I think you should re-think about how you are as a person!
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