Thread: Beware at boat ramps.

Sorry to hear that. I have been a boatie for long time. I always were Keens sandles at the ramp. Closed heavy rubber toe piece and excellent grip. Cheers

Thongs, bare feet or even tougher stuff can not survive some bottom dwelling sharpe stuff. A old pair of diving boots are my preference for launching and retrieving.

Worked at Monkey Mia (Shark Bay WA) for a short time. Razor oysters or spear oysters gave the local nurse or doc a bit of sewing practice!

Sure it wasn't a stonefish?

Hope you are on the mend soon, nasty.

Originally Posted by rovers4

Very sorry to hear of the recent happenings.
I can sympathize with you. I too am a diabetic, I too go out in boats, I too have suffered a foot injury while handling the boat. I no-longer wear thongs. Instead I go for open-toe sandals or dive boots.

Could you get the details down on paper and forward it all to the local authorities - Council/shire, Marine authority. Also to the local boat club. And the service clubs.

There needs to be some repair work carried out and a warning sign in the interim.

Your mishap needs to be starter for better things to come.

Please see if you can be a help to those who want to use the ramp in the future. A wound as nasty as that can be the impetus for a fix to a serious hazard.


Hope it all heals up. Sorry, ol mate.

As an addendum I did email the local council, Sunshine Coast Council, who i think are the best council in Australia. In the email i stated all the obvious plus some detail about the injury. I received a call from an SCC Inspector the next day, or the day after whilst i was in hospital. He was on site at the ram at the time. He explained that the offending ramp was not their asset but was managed by them on the behalf of TMR/DOT. He was immediately going to close the ramp and request special funding to get divers in to inspect the ramp. All this I thought was being very pro-active until the next sentence "we have to do this to lessen the effects of any litigation". I was not thinking of any litigation at the time however, now that he has put it in my mind. It could be possible as i will be off work for sometime and another day on from my original post and there has been zero improvement, if anything the wound is marginally worse. In the end all i wanted was to to get it repaired so no one else would be screaming at the sky and trees in pain because they had done the same thing.

Thanks!
Boxhead

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Oddly I didn't feel off, I was just in excruciating pain, my whole arm was going red,it was spreading , the hospital triage said I wouldn't be standing up for much longer and immediately admitted me, put me on a drip and operated the next morning. I never want to go down that track gain. I had a broken coffee cup fragment in my finger, from an injury the week before, (which I had the hospital check out and give me a tetanus shot the week before )

I have had a total shoulder replacement performed 7 months ago and the pain i am experiencing now is way over the top of the replacement surgery and recovery.

Cheers.