ORDEAL INGULF
Man falls overboard
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 30. An Auckland man, Mr R. F. Bragg, of Otara, had a lucky escape from drowning when he was tossed overboard from a 23ft fishing boat in a heavy sea in the Hauraki Gulf. With four workmates he left Auckland yesterday morning for a day’s fishing round Raklno and Walheke Islands. With the wind rising, the men decided to return about 10 p.m. Mr Bragg was going on deck to join his workmates, who were for’ard, about 11.15 p.m., when a sudden lurch by the boat threw him overboard. Mr Bragg wallowed in the gulf for nearly four houts before he reached Walheke Island. A naval launch alerted by his workmates directed a light at him, but the crew neither saw him nor heard his shouts.
After staggering across rocks and paddocks, during which time Mr Bragg neither saw lights nor people, he stumbled into Waiheke Island police station at Oneroa at 9 a.m. today, just as the local constable was working out plans for a full-scale search of the gulf and shoreline. “I think' they had resigned themselves to the fact that they were going to look for a body,” Mr Bragg said.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32620, 31 May 1971, Page 1
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