DANGER LURKS IN CURRENTS AT HEADS
The entrance to the Whakatane Heads looks easy—until you try it on the ebb tide. Ask any sailor who knows it. Ask a fisherman. Yet there are still local citizens who think they have the edge on the forces of nature. People who will take on the entrance at the ebb in a flat-bottomed boat.
Four women tackled it over the holidays, and could have lost their lives had it not been for the harbourmaster, Mr Waugh, with the Port Whakatane. When the gojjig had got really tough the women decided to desert the flattie, and scrambled onto a rock, not without some bruises and scratches. There they clung, precariously, until the “Portie” could get near enough to get them off.
There have been fatalities that way. Remember the Indian who vanished in the night, after his cries for help had been heard, but no one could help? Rowing in a riptide is no beginner’s game. . And the old hands know better than to tackle it.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 81, 4 January 1950, Page 5
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