all risk is calculated

From Sean's Facebook page: "Elsewhere, on Sandra's FB page, there is a photo of me swirled in a wave. I shouted at her and Hedinn and Hermann and Mark that I wanted just one shot, and then this wave growled in and scared the beejesus out of me; I got up on a rock and waited for whatever part of it was heading back out and calculated what I needed to do if another was on its heels. Because in this piece of ocean, there is no rescue of any kind, and I had been formally warned before wandering out this far. This is the fifth time in my life that a wave left me thinking I was about to lose my cameras if not worse, and I keep supposing there is a lesson to be learned here, but how do you switch off your nature? I am a dog chasing cars and biting tires, and the waves come into my adventures like strange joyriders breezing through time; how can I stop chasing that part of myself which I hope secretly I can never catch?"

from Sandra Bishop: "Hedinn tells us, if you step out there and a wave gets you, you're dead. There's no rescue. We're hundreds of miles from coast guard cutters or helicopters and it is below freezing. So what does Sean do? He goes out to the edge, and of course a wave snarls in and he gets on top of this rock before getting swept away. We tell him off, but he comes in saying he had a plan if the wave got any bigger, and besides, he got the photo."

Sandra says: "The wild part about this picture is that we are 15 feet up in the air. The foreground of this picture is a hot pot which has cooled down from the Ocean. So, that water around Sean is veeery... deep. I was freaking out to say the least, screaming at him at the top of my lungs."

To which Sean replies: "I knew if the next wave was bigger I could wedge myself into the crevasse of the rock bottom and hold my breath for 60 seconds until the wave went back out. I was sure about that. 20 minutes after this shot, the waves were regularly sweeping over the rock as the tide came up! Next time, I'll check the local tides better. The moon is with me right now. I won't get hurt this way. Not yet!"