Originally Posted by
Kanga
Kiwis do seem to have an interesting sense of risk assessment. The only couple I recall from Hawkes Bay when I lived there were a young woman who was drunk and took a swim under the pool blanket on her own in the dark and a kid off notorius Napier beach. There was the near drowning of the couple of men who got washed far out to sea in the fishing dinghy- neither of them could swim or had any means of communicating or safety stuff on board at all. Mental really. I guess the two actual drowning there probably were unaffected by whether the person could swim or not, so that certainly concurs with your observations.