Insurance Companys: Land-Sharks

Aside from the dipensation of liability issues discussed on the OS Blog, why can't the SLSA give Lloyds the flick n find another insurer, preferrably a domestic one?

Surely a local biggie like IAG (not the Seppo one, AIG that nearly went broke) could come to the party. It'd have to give their Aussie icon brand NRMA a good run in the meeja by taking a risk like this into their book. They could tie it in with their whole H.E.L.P. campaign which would sit nicely beside their CareFlight activities.

Fair dinkum, how much could they really be up for if somethin went pearshaped anyway? It'd have to be no more than the change from their lunchmoney. Even if every Clubby patroling every race on their planks on any given Sundy got munched by a pack of man-or-woman-eating sharks! They're used to underwritin natural disasters like cyclones n stuff, and that's gotta be a much more expensive proposition.

Now, goin by the mug spottin that Mr Os.c goes on with, I reckon that the big end o town is fairly well represented within the ranks of the Oceanswimming fraternity or sorority. So maybe some of you bigwigs could practise a bit of digitis extractus and pull a few strings to sort it. I'm sure that something can be done, hey?

By the way, how pissed off must the aforementioned sharks be since the Bikies stole their meeja limelight? If any of youz Bikies do oceanswimmin, ya better watch out, I hear the sharks are filthy about it!

David Love.