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Extreme wading

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Extreme wading downunder

http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=31867" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I got caught this deep in our syncro fire truck at a music festival not too far from here a few years ago - didn't make it ,but it did float and still lives to tell the tale.

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s**t thats deep.

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^^^^^^^^^^^ WHS
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you have got to wonder what the driver and passenger were thinking when the cab was filling up with water?

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They were probably thinking

"Strewth, we've only jist got the paint redone after Bruce got it barbied at the wild fires last month. Maybe they should hiv egg jelly put the neenars on the roof at the same time"

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lovely single sweep of the windscreen wipers at deepest point. futile.

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Blimey charlie! They're good those Jap trucks, aren't they? Could have got messy if they'd hit a sunken obstacle...
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got to give this guy 10 out of 10 for effort for not abandoning ship :ok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mysp9FeO ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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hugomonkey wrote:got to give this guy 10 out of 10 for effort for not abandoning ship :ok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mysp9FeO ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bloody hell, fair play! :shock:
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Feel pretty sure the snakes and crocs he saw floating past his windscreen spurned him on :D
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Still not as good as the Swimcro video on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WbcXSG5tgI
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