Dolphin Helps Spearfisherman

Dolphin Helps Spearfisherman

I was out on a steenbras hunt with Mark Jackson.

I had carefully tracked the weather and probable position of thermoclines was good as per my model. Alarm bells were ringing in my left brain claiming it’s time to go right now, the window of opportunity would soon close as there was a fresh westerly blowing that would essentially zero success if we waited a few more hours. No sooner had we entered the water and the click and squeak parade arrived. Bottlenose Dolphins.Delighted by their presence I sat silently on the bottom gazing at the mixed pod of juvenile and adult dolphins. I essentially wrote off getting a steenbras with these big predators cruising about. Especially after the recent newspaper article in which a paddle-skier claimed that a bottlenose dolphin had displayed a musselcracker it caught and seemingly offered the fish to him.

Anyway, Mark was already pulling anchor as he saw no likelihood of getting success with the present company. I decided to try one last spot, the dolphins had just left and I checked my land marks and landed within a 2 m radius of where I wanted to be. I quietly settled on the bottom and gazed off to the east while partially tucked behind a hollow sandstone ridge under which was a small cave that sometimes produced tasslefish (baardman). Nothing doing – I could hear the outboard engine starting up in the distance as Mark prepared to pick me up. I decided to look for a tassle and pushed back on the sand and looked into the cave – what’s this?!

A large silver glow revealed a steenbras within – most unusual – the dolphins had spooked it and it took temporary refuge in the cave. I backed up the 1.1 m gun which was still pointing out over the ridge and managed to swiftly move back myself to get in a position to attempt a shot. The fish started to move but I was faster and lined the fish up with a very irregular angled shot. The shot was solid and I extracted the white steenbras – I was very surprised as these fish seldom enter caves. Mark was equally surprised at this success. I have seen more than my share of fine-sized white steenbras but only on one other occasion had I seen one in a cave – that was on the wreckage just north of the Queen Victoria’s wreck off North End, Port Elizabeth.

Author: Gletwyn Rubidge
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Aircraft Emergency Engine Failure

Aircraft Emergency Engine Failure

We were flying in a twin engine Islander aircraft hoping to skydive from 12,000ft, at about 4,500ft we noticed that we were no longer climbing although we were still heading away from the drop zone; I looked back in the direction of the drop zone and could see some huge black clouds rapidly building. It was not looking that good and we thought we might get a call for a low climb out.

I checked my altimeter and the aircraft was now down to 4,000 ft I spoke to my friend Dave and said I can’t see what the problem is, almost immediately the left hand engine shut down and the pilot shouted get out. This was a real aircraft emergency so you don’t hang around you just get out of the aircraft as quickly as possible.

The door was opened in a couple of seconds followed by people leaving the aircraft in a real hurry as Dave and I went for the door one of the jumpers was blocking the isle calling to the pilot “what’s wrong” the pilot did not answer he just glared angrily and shook his finger pointing to the lame engine.

We almost had to push this guy out of the aircraft; I just could not believe that someone would question an experienced pilots command to leave the aircraft.Dave and I exited last we took a 2 way straight out of the door, with all the excitement of a real aircraft emergency we had no time to look where we were in relation to the drop zone.

When we deployed our parachutes we could see that we had no chance of making it back to the drop zone. I had a quick look around and could see one of the jumpers flying in the opposite direction, I began to question myself as there are two airfields and they both look very similar. I soon realised that he was flying in the wrong direction.

I still could not see any wind socks because of the distance we were away from the drop zone. Suddenly my mind seemed to be playing tricks with me and I began to question the direction for landing, I had checked it earlier in the day but with no wind sock I began to doubt myself.

I tried spitting but it did not give me a clue so I looked around for any signs of smoke, no fires no chimney smoke.I was pretty sure I was heading into wind and I had time and enough altitude to make one final check I went into fairly deep brakes and made some gentle turns, the ground speed went up straight away which confirmed that my original heading was correct.

We all made a safe landing in some fields, and the pilot managed to fly the aircraft safely back to the drop zone. One of the other jumpers came up to me and said I was following you because I could not see which direction to land in, I laughed and told him that I doubted my own judgement as well.

With the use of GPS we have become used to getting a good spot over the drop zone, sometimes we perhaps become a bit complacent in expecting to be over the right spot every time.There are always lessons to be learned to ensure the best chances of reducing injury or worse, so what could we have done to have made this incident safer?

We could not predict this engine failure however we could have made thing safer by just following some simple rules.On this occasion we should have paid more attention to the weather conditions in particular to the wind direction. When you can see a wind sock it is easy to judge the direction for landing however with no reference to wind direction things can become more difficult.

Also when a pilot gives you an order you need to take immediate action, however you should still try to be aware of your surroundings and the buildings and hazards that exist around the drop zone. If you are not familiar with the drop zone always ask for a briefing and look at the photograph of the drop zone so that you are familiar with the area and hazards.

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