cross
the Tasman Sea in a standard one-man kayak was aborted after two days
due to trouble keeping warm inside the cockpit. Andrew's second attempt
began on 11 January 2007 and ended on 12 February when the search for
his missing body was called off following the recovery of his partly
flooded kayak on 10 February just 30 nautical miles short of his
destination Milford Sound.
The
sleeping arrangements at sea involved deploying a sea anchor, squeezing
his body down into the kayak and sealing the hatch with a bulbous
fibreglass capsule (dubbed "Casper") fitted with an air-only ventilator
which, with its self-righting capabilities, made it possible to ride out
the most severe storm conditions that are inevitable in that part of
the ocean
