[SA Chris]

Aye, and shit happens with a splash.

Also bear in mind that most people have 20/20 vision when it comes to hindsight.

When we were in the area we went blackwater tubing, which involves sitting in a modified inner tube and going down rapids. They didn't warn us to lift your arse out the tube a bit when you go down rapids, but you learn that quickly. At the finishing point there was a plaque remembering the 7 or so people who drowned in the river the year before when it came down in flash flood. They didn't tell us about that either. Not that it would have made a lot of difference.

[squeek]

As my Nan said to me the other day about my dangerous climbing hobby: "Act in haste, repent at leisure"

[Fiend]

Don't worry TTTTTTT and Chris I'm not ruminating and regretting much, just trying to learn and have a better idea how to tackle such things in the future - gotta take something useful out of the experience (other than being able to competently sandboard down the equivalent of an easy green run in a straight line, w00h00!)