LONG SWIM FOR LIFE
A SHARK INFESTED' SEA MEN'S STRENUOUS BATTLE. SYDNEY, November 28. The waters of Botany Bay are known to be shark-infested, and that two young men should have swum through them two miles to shore after being capsized from a Bailing boat- and be alive to tell: their tale is considered nothing short of a miracle by meii who know the bay. Yet this befil four young' men last- Saturday. The nten. Arthur Sales, Leslie Sleigh, Harold Yvilliamte, and ; Robert Carroll, set out in a 14ft. sailing skiff early in the afternoon to compete va a. race. A heavy *ea waa running, and about an hour later a huge wave overwhelmed the small craft. Attempts were made to right the boat without success, and Sales and Sleigh then decided to swim for the shore. It wus a hazardous endeavor, and for two hours they battled against the waves and tide until finally tliey were able to ...stagger ashore iii a state of collapse. The men remembered nothing more, hut they managed to reach a cottage, where a. woman gave them hot stimulants, and treated them ,u;itiil lambulauce arrived. Meaiiwhile on the Upturned boat the oilier' men were having a trying time. Their plight became 1 desperate, as the boat began to drift but to the open fiea. It was htere good fortune that a doctor driving a motor-car along a bayside road chanced to eee them waving. He informed a launch proprietor, and the latter, after seeing through fieldglasses that the men needed help, dashed after them in a fast motor-boat and rescued them.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 3
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267LONG SWIM FOR LIFE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 3
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