Man tries to tow boat with mates inside by swimming after running out of petrol

A man wearing only his underwear tied a rope to himself, jumped into the sea, and tried to tow his two mates in a boat to shore after running out of petrol.

The Sumner Lifeboat was called after a member of the public spotted the small Rigid Inflatable Boat about 100 metres off Boulder Bay, near Godley Head off the coast of Christchurch, about 1.30pm on Sunday.

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Video captured from an onlooker shows the man swimming with the boat in tow, with his two mates inside it paddling furiously.

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Sumner Lifeboat coxswain Blair Quane said the three men, who had plenty of fishing equipment but no life jackets, were spoken to by the Hamilton Jet Rescue boat crew as they got to shore at nearby Taylor's Mistake beach.

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Quane said the incident was a "prime example of what not to do." "If you go on any watercraft you should have life jackets," he said. "When I spoke to them they said 'oh we weren't planning on going very far' but I mean that's like saying I'm only going down to the shops, so I won't wear my seatbelt, it's ridiculous in this day and age." He said another "disappointing" aspect was that the trio had set off for a trip without checking they had adequate fuel.image "It beggars belief that they could get in that situation ... a cup full of fuel would have got them there (to Boulders Bay) and back, they just had no fuel at all. "They were very lucky that nothing changed in terms of weather and swells ... because they would've been struggling." According to MetService, temperatures in Christchurch at the time of the rescue was about 9 degrees Celsius. The water temperature around Canterbury is about 12 degrees.

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