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Non Diving Posts: Discuss More to this than meets the eye... in the Non-Diving Related Forums forums: Reading this article in the Torygraph on line. Seems a paraglider in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne got snagged in ...

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Old 02-03-08, 10:56 AM
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More to this than meets the eye...
Reading this article in the Torygraph on line.

Seems a paraglider in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne got snagged in a tree.

The Tele talks about it being "mountan ash" - fine, so he got stuck in a Rowan tree then? Bigg whoopy doos...So what's all the fuss about?

Actually, a "mountain ash" in Victoria (a Swamp Gum here in Tas) is a huge eucalypt tree, Eucalyptus regnans; they commonly grow to 60-70m tall with some specimens over 90m tall and records of one or two exceeding 100m - there's a stand in the Styx Valley, about 100km from Hobart, wityh many over 90m tall, the tallest at 96 or 97m, truly statuesque.

This bloke must have been crapping himself.
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god i hope the tree was ok and undamaged!
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Saw this on the news. They said that he was stuck up that tree for about 6 hours ! He certainly looked uncomfortable. And he had his dog with him ?
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