“Swept up in the joy and adrenalin of being on holiday it feels like the rules don’t apply, and you find out sometimes that they really do.”
After spending 36 hours floating at sea on surfboards off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province, Elliot Foote, his partner Steph Weisse, and their friends Jordan Short and Will Teagle, were found by rescue crews on Tuesday. The search continues for one remaining missing member of the three-person crew,The full details of what went wrong may emerge with time but what has been stated is that the wooden longboat they were travelling on began to take in water in a storm.
“I considered myself very lucky and very foolhardy. You take these risks thinking that everything will be fine, being swept up in the joy and adrenalin of being on holiday somewhere new, where it feels like the rules don’t apply, and you find out sometimes that they really do.” The only way is down: mountain bikers at a viewpoint of the famous downhill trail “Road of death” in Bolivia.So what is it that makes us turn off our inbuilt caution mode when we are away on holiday? Dr Catriona Davis-McCabe, the president of the Australian Psychological Society, says relaxation with the change of routine is a factor.
“There’s a theory in tourism around travel being a performance and putting on a mask and when you leave home you go out, and you experiment with the world and explore in its permission to try different things in this space of play,” he said. “The longer you travel, the more you get into this behaviour, you meet other people who provide a different environment that enables those behaviours.Credit:“I think social media encourages those particular behaviours. There’s a whole phenomenon of people taking their kit off when they travel, taking pictures in Indonesia and Bali at sacred sites or on the top of mountains, that’s all about encouraging those risk-taking behaviours.
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