NZer jumps into sea after tsunami-hit boat burns
Oct 27, 2010 I Uncategorized.An unidentified New Zealander was forced to jump into the sea when a 3m tsunami tore two charter boats from their anchorages at a remote Indonesian surf break.
The boats collided and one vessel, the 22.5m motor cruiser MV Midas, burst into flames, forcing eight surfers from the Gold Coast and the New Zealander to leap into the water, the Herald Sun newspaper reported.
Some of the men - and the Midas’s skipper Rick Hallet, from Mona Vale, north of Sydney, were swept hundreds of metres into the jungle by the tsunami.