Let this be a lesson to all ye land lubbers out there: What the sea wants, the sea will have.
An extremely game 22-year-old Victorian bloke had to be pulled from the murky depths of Port Phillip Bay by police overnight after he dove into the chilly biz in an attempt to save his crashed drone.
The yarn goes that the RC pilot was out taking some night snaps with his quad-rotor whirly bird of death when, for reasons that I can only chalk up to being “like Poseidon swatting a gnat,” the drone plunged into the drink just off St Kilda Pier.
Despite it being very much night time, the young fellow decided to pull his best Baywatch impression and stripped down to his grundies before diving into the water after the contraption. And this is where things went absolutely pear-shaped.
Not accounting for the fact that the bay is bone cold, he quickly found himself in trouble when the frigid waters caused him to cramp up. The cramps, coupled with the fact that the pier has no ladder from the water (A THING YA PROBABLY SHOULD’VE CHECKED BEFORE JUMPING IN HEY M8), he found himself in trouble and unable to haul himself out of the water.
A friend and a passerby tied clothing together to form a makeshift rope, which our next superfish had to cling on to for about 30 minutes until water police arrived to fish him out and get him to a nearby hospital, where he is now recovering.
As for the drone? Victoria Police confirmed that it is “now in the depths of the bay.“
Arrrr. The sea, she is a mighty, merciless mistress who spares neither man nor machine.
Source: ABC News.
Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty.
