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Be careful out there!
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01/15/2015 10:35 AM
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Daily Herald story As someone else reported this morning, a cruise ship passenger died yesterday at Orient. The ocean is not to be trifled with. How sad..
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Re: Be careful out there!
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01/15/2015 12:47 PM
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Oh my goodness,,,very sad news,,,,we will be very careful that is for sure, especially me,,,I am not a strong swimmer when faced with high waves or any undertow. My condolences to the family.
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01/15/2015 02:11 PM
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I could not find anything in the online Today newspaper about it. Was that in a printed version that you saw or did I just miss it online? That's a very different story than what the DH reported.
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01/15/2015 02:19 PM
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OK, that confirms the parasailing part of it. That is even worse. There almost has to be some fault on the part of the parasail operator?
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01/15/2015 02:41 PM
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It is very sad especially for the family. I was going to post earlier that I didn't think it would be possible to hit your head fatally from shore break at Orient as the waves are never that big. Yes you can injure yourself or drown if you can't swim but not be killed by a head injury. Was just in Hawaii at Sandy Beach, Oahu near the Blow Hole, the shore break is unbelievable. It's the number 1 beach in the world for spinal injuries but 100's of kids including mine love the challenge and danger.
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Re: Be careful out there!
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01/16/2015 09:01 AM
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Sad to hear about this incident. It really dose bring to sharp focus just how fragile our lives are, and how much we take it for granted...
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01/16/2015 10:21 AM
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I no longer find waves fun either, as I have trouble getting out of the water if the waves are big at all. This past time at BSV, there was an older couple staying just down from us, and I watched them in the water for a while and it was scary to me. The waves were not particularly big at all, but they both had a hard time getting out of the water. If one of them had had a problem, I don't think the other would have been able to save them.
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01/16/2015 01:08 PM
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I don't enjoy waves anymore either. Even at Mullet one day last week, I had a hard time getting out of the water without feeling like I was going to fall over. And this from someone who used to be on the swim team in my youth. Of course, that 'youth' was a long time ago. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />
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Those waves at Mullet can be huge! When there are big waves or the huge cliff, I just hang out in my beach chair there.
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Which is exactly what I did after that, Carol! Of course, I'm pretty short, so it doesn't take much of a cliff or wave to make me uncomfortable. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />
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I resemble that remark! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Carol and Robin,
There seems to be a lot of that 'short' thing going around. Those of us who are, as my DH describes it, "Height Challenged" do have our issues and getting in and out of the water over 'the shelf' that often occurs is but one of them, and when you add strong waves to the mixture - YIKES!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" />
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01/21/2015 09:08 PM
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We were on that ship and I didn't hear about this until now.
After further investigation I realized that Howard and his wife and friends were sitting at our dinner table each evening on the Oasis. We saw them at Orient beach Wednesday around noon but we left for the ship by 1:30.
We never saw them again for dinner and wondered what happened. My wife Ann and I are in Shock.
Having only met Howard, (the man who died)a few days earlier I can say that he was a real gentleman and had just sold his company looking forward to his retirement.
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