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There is something unusual about this shot,besides the obvious.
Take a closer look at the water bucket. The Oryx helicopter is filling the bucket to help fight a nearby peninsula fire (I have never seen buckets being filled at sea. I gather the salt deposit from sea water would be detrimental to the minerals in the soil) Now look at the small 'dark' dot in the water to the left of the bucket. This is in fact some-ones head breaching the surface, as he is swimming to the other side of the dam. I saw this person momentarily as he came out the water on my side, for a short break. I gathered he was training for something, or just a fitness fanatic, because he had swum across a couple of times already. At the time I was with my family, just relaxing near the waters edge. Non of us anticipated the Oryx to abruptly disturb the peace. Luckily I had my camera and I might add it was a bit of a fumble as I was completely unprepared. Fortunately, the swimmer was not hurt. Oryx helicopters perform an important function in fighting peninsula fires, particularly in the high lying mountainous areas which are inaccessible by other means. photo taken at the fresh water dam Silvermine - Cape peninsula ...please view in conjunction with the rest of the series... COPYRIGHT NOTICE © Respectfully DO NOT use anything from my gallery for blogs, websites, myspace, face book, banners, designs, posters, cd's, books etc WITHOUT my written approval. My work is NOT stock If you see my work being used, please e-mail me - bagend@iafrica.com Please respect copyrights |
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...no I don't think he did. It is not unusual to see people swimming in the dam, though before this time I had actually never seen anyone swimming right across.
So it would not normally be the case that someone is in the middle of the dam.
I think the pilot was totally unaware that he was there.
(the water is also quite cold & also dark- at least for my liking)
The swimmer actually joked about it when he climed out.
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