R1DER said..
That sucks, just curious what's the long story? If you got smashed didn't the waves wash if in?
R1der I'm assuming you are no stranger to the break at Gnaraloo. Got wiped out by the first big wave in a big set and lost my rig, the following set waves pushed it well out of reach and into the whitewater channel in front of the reef. Apparently, whilst i was doing the long swim the big set was followed very quickly by a smaller set which pushed the rig further along the channel in the whitewater zone. I lost sight of it whilst swimming, by the time I made it to the reef and where I thought the rig was approximately located. It had been sucked back out to the top of the bombie. Expected behaviour was for it to then go over the bombie to be delivered in front of the kiter beach.
But instead, after travelling most of the bombie it got ejected out the side into a bit of a rip which dragged back out behind the reef and breaking waves where it started travelling north. It was rapidly heading towards sunset by this time and the wind had suddenly dropped. I tried to convince the only kiter on kiter beach to try dragging me out to it but he wasn't convinced he'd make it back in. I tracked it down past 3 mile camp before the lights went fully out.
We sent drones up first thing the next morning and scoured the coast up to the furthest point of Gnaraloo bay to try and find it, but to no avail!
I'm sure I could have swum faster and harder or in a different direction or both. Failing that asking around earlier for someone with a boat or similar would have been a good idea. But hindsight is a marvellous thing and to be fair I was pretty done in when I finally surfaced after being smashed by the first wave.
