If you're ever on the water in Sydney Australia, and you see a large red blob thrashing its way towards you on a surfski, odds are that it's the famous (or is it infamous?) Fat Paddler... It was my privilege to meet the Fat Paddler a few weeks ago - thrashing its way across the crystal clear blue waters of Mauritius and this week's video is the story of how FP and his PO (Propaganda Officer) found themselves about to be crushed by the notorious monster waves of Le Morne...
[Editor: Dawid Mocke is known for going out hard from the start... and sometimes choosing the wrong line. Here's the story of his last three big races...]
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We had to be brave.
For precisely 24 hours before we boarded an airliner to fly
east to a tiny Indian Ocean island off the East coast of Africa … an airliner
crashed into the sea, trying to land on a tiny Indian Ocean Island off the East
coast of Africa.
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