While Simon looks for the quad, Jase looks for crocs.
But there’s a problem.
While the water is shallower now, the light has also disappeared, meaning Simon can barely
see two inches ahead of him.
There’s no visual contact.
No, we need light.
It’s too dark.
Try and hook it with the anchor again?
So, persistence, we just kept tryin and tryin and tryin.
Eventually it had to hook on something.
And it did.
Keep going back hard.
Ooo yeah.
You got it?
Yeah, got it that time. That’s hooked in now.
Now we’ve gotta try and tangle it up somehow.
Unless… let me pull it up, put it in neutral.
Even maybe keep a little bit of weight against me.
Yeah I’ve got weight against it.
And there it is.
The catch of the day...
A quad bike.
Just try a bit more weight against it?
Yeah definitely got him.
You definitely got it?
Yep - keep weight against me, because it's just kind of floating off.
Finally, we hook it up.
We get hold of something - it’s big.
We know we’ve got something big on the end of the line.
It’s a quad bike for sure.
Anyway, we start to pull it up, we’re pulling it up and sure enough,
here this wheel of a quad bike appears.
It’s a quad bike! We’ve caught a quad bike!
Holy crap! There it is!
I’ll pull it up a touch - let me grab the wheel!
You pull it up and I can grab the wheel!
Now it’s a matter of holding it up in position, getting it tied up a lot tighter, and getting
it locked off so we know it’s not going to disappear.
That tide could come in and go out during the night, and take that quad bike, and it
could disappear forever.
You got him?
Yep!
Good job!!
I saw the wheel, and you pulled the wheel up and I’m just about to grab the wheel.
We’ve gotcha now.
There’s a quad bike in there!
Attached to the end of this rope!
Good job mate, good job.
We got it!
Well we sorta gotta it.
We sorta got it - well that’s a start. What have you got it tied around?
The bar.
The bar? The front bullbar?
Well before we do anything, let's go and get the bags.
How tight are we?
Yeah good.
We’re good? We’re solid?
Yep.
Let’s go and get the bags from your boat.
We’ve gotta try and hold this thing on the surface now.
It’s all well and good to physically pull it up and hold it there briefly, but trying
to hold it there for any length of time is way too hard.
Do we float it now?
Yeah!
Float it now and take it home.
Now, all I could think of is the lift bags that I use for our other truck to get it across the water.
And those lift bags, we’ve chucked them in the boat.
I don’t know about you but I’m starting to feel sick!
So we’ve now got these two lift bags,
which as far as I’m concerned without them we were nowhere.
And we’ve got one of them tied to the quad bike.
So I had to physically drag it up again and quickly tie the airbag to try and hold it
off the bottom basically, so we can move it somewhere that we can deal with it.
Alright you gotta hold it there?
We’re good.
Alright it’s now floating it.
I think we need to drag it up to that bank.
Yes.
Straight to that bank cos we can stand on that bank, it’s got a slope in it, and then
we can control it better.
Now that it’s startin to float, we just tow it.
That was the same shoreline where we righted the boat.
Get my helmet. Get my helmet!
And it seemed to take forever to drag this massive 400kg quad bike off the nose of my
boat in reverse to the shoreline.
It’s like dragging a log.
So it’s taken us all day now, at this point pretty much.
Sun’s going down.
And we’ll get it to the bank.
Well close to the bank - we still haven’t got it to where we can physically see it yet.
On the gas!
We’re running out of daylight mate ay!
Yeah, we're gonna be in trouble.
We gotta try and get it over to the bank there, and try and drag it up it.
It’s the only chance we got.
This thing’s like towing a…
I dunno. It’s like towing a big block of concrete.
More like towing a quad bike full of water!
Yeah.