This is scary but has a happy ending. It's a video from the BBC of a sailor in the Clipper race on Hull and Humber being swept overboard.
Whenever I have sailed offshore, I have sometimes felt that skippers are a bit melodramatic in the routines they set for how to clip on. One in particular told me that the second I poked my head through the companion way I was to clip on. And on returning back down below, not to unclip till the last possible second. Now I see why.
Just blogged on the same video – yup, thats one of those bone chilling moments.
Thank god for all the training, the way it must have just clicked in, and how they got him back.
I’ll take the melodrama over the ones that don’t bother with a safety briefing at all.