Friends Beer Party Mid-sea Turns Fatal In West Australia Mar 02, 2021, 10:12 IST
Two men have been rescued after the blow-up mattress they were drinking beers on drifted out to sea off the West Australian coast. Jackson Perry and Noah Palmer were stranded kilometres into the Indian Ocean for almost three hours with nothing but an esky filled with beers and a dying phone.
The Mandurah mates told they had only planned to go for a leisurely float along the water on Saturday. “We just thought we’d go out and drift around on the water for a moment on the mattress, and then we realised the wind had taken us out,” Perry explained.
get in. reporter: hey, thomas. and i wish i could tell you that everybody was out. but we re here at this mobile home park and i cannot tell you how many people i am still seeing here and we ve been talking to them. they are staying. they are going to ride out the storm here, and here s the issue. so you ve got a mobile home park. we ve seen them after other hurricanes have come through. the winds could be devastating to some of these homes but then take a look at this. this water is left over from flooding they had about a week ago after harvey came through and all of that moisture and rain. there was about a foot of water across this area just from rain. we re not even talking storm surge with that storm. and the storm surge here is predicted to be measured in feet, so i talked to one woman. she s got a blow-up mattress. their back-up plan is to blow that up. they have a paddle, and they say they could float away. the man in this house here has a home made boat that he has
the budgets are still constrained and keeping spending for other things. they have to pay for the room. they may not be able to get the other services. another survey asked what people most wished would become standard with their stay? 66 percent said free wi-fi and only 2 percent said room service was a must when choosing a hotel for leisure travel. service is an important aspect of travel, but for more tells, it is what kind of service. travelers are looking for more customized and they like the idea of on demand. people want high-end coffee makers, free bottles of water, and free breakfast, even. the hotels are just trying to keep up with the times and the moratory house consumer, do you ever order out of the mini bar in gregg: i don t ever go to hotels, i have a blow up
finish by the end of the week, who cares if you are having a drink in between working eight hours here if you do the actual product. if you are able to finish up. there is a lot of time a work that is wasted as well. when you are at home you tend to focus the time you are working. gregg: my commute averages an hour each way so there is two hours, i could be taking a nap? yes, do you do that on set? i have a blow up mattress in my office. [ laughter ] most disliked at work events. take a look. costume contests, i don t know they had those, team building activities. baby showers, i never get invited to those and i m upset about it. 31%. holiday gift exchange, nobody gives me anything. it s all about you. maybe that is some of the reason
for effort. welcome back. thank you. that s the big story. big story that i actually got back because because of the plane. one of the first planes back luckily but home to a lot of devastation, unfortunately. steve, will you lend gretchen your plane next time? i ll lend her my lack of electricity. now day five no electricity in our house. me, too. i got it back last night. you are welcome to a sleepover. i have a blow up mattress. i have the one flashlight i ve been using it for five days, shaved with it this morning. we have so many trees down, i have no idea when power will be restored. stay tuned for next week. headlines for this wednesday, the latest on the aftermath from hurricane irene. u.s. blackhawk helicopters delivering much needed supplies to people in vermont this morning. more than a dozen towns left stranded because roads and bridges are washed out. the situation just as dire in new jersey. towns near the passaic river being evacuated as floodwate