Seconds from disaster

Yup - that's the one.

He's much gamer than me, particular with a child in the front with him.

Not game...an idiot !!!

Must have been moron week with a full moon.
cheers
T.R.

You have to have it on the web somewhere, then link to it.

Thanks Andrew -I was beaten by the technology!

Goerge_M

Perhaps a few more beers in the boat would have not let it float so bad.LOVL

Water Xings and local knowledge can be done with easy and safety.

Its when you don't have the knowledge is when it goes pear shaped.

I have done many water xings over a meter deep and up to 1.5 km in length safely.

Cheers Steve

Yep local knowlege can be great...a few blokes from work told a funny story a few years back..... at a flooded crossing they were playing the waiting game as they considered the crossing a bit deep and flowing a bit much, they were in a typical top end cruiser ute with station style bar work etc etc. They saw very new looking sahara comeing the other way, and made the typical comments to each other ("bet its never seen a gravel road" etc etc....). It was as though the bloke in the Sahara could hear then, as he drove into the crossing without stopping, drove across with the bonnet just visible, pulled up next to them, wound down the window, "you weak so and so's", wound up the window and drove off. made them fee real big!

I do prefer caution with water. Local knowlege bought 3 vehicles to an expensive stop a few years back. on the way to a favourate local water hole there was a big puddle that you always just drive through the middle......it managed to get over 1m deep after a while, killed a couple of radiators and 1 hydrauliced engine was its tally I'm told!

Cheers Andrew

Local knowledge or not he (The fool in the pictures) didn't know that the bridge was intact under that water and from the blurb that came with the pics the bridge is 6 or 7 metres above the normal water level. So it was a possible long drop off the side or thru the bridge to a watery grave for both hm and his kid.....he is a bLEEPIN'FooL.... What a waste of a truck and a kids life that would have been

Waynepd:

If the post and pictures are correct and I don't hear any corrections...?

I'll go with that - he was not driving through 1m of water he was driving over 8m of it on a track he did not know existed any longer, with a young child.

I think the word we're looking for here is not hero but bleep .

Mike Harding