"In his GoPro vision, provided to Guardian Australia, Chapman can be heard saying Where the fuck is the boat? and Oi the boat it's come off anchor to his friend. At the time, Chapman said the main thing going through his head was superficial. Originally I thought the boat had sank, he said. So we were looking around for the presumed sunken boat, and then decided to swim to a boat we could see in the distance, about a kilometre away."
"Chapman and his friend, both athletic men, attempted to hail them down before managing to get picked up at a closer distance about one-and-a-half hours after surfacing to find their boat missing. Their rescuers told them they had been concerned after seeing the boat drifting out at sea. Chapman, though, says he wasn't too worried. I was pretty confident in our ability to make it back to shore if we needed to, but it would've taken a few hours and the boat would've been long gone, he said."
Ryan Chapman and a friend were free diving and scuba diving about 5 km off Mindarie when their anchored boat disappeared after they resurfaced. Wind likely picked up and a poorly tied knot allowed the anchor to come off. After surfacing they searched, initially suspecting the boat had sunk, then swam toward a distant vessel about one kilometre away. They attempted to hail that boat and were picked up about one-and-a-half hours after surfacing. Rescuers had been concerned after seeing the boat drifting. They later located their own boat about 2 km away, recovered it, re-anchored and resumed diving, then kept one person on board during subsequent dives.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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