Man suffers burns floating in fuel-laden water after his boat swamped by wave

A teacher who suffered chemical burns after spending more than two hours in fuel-laden water after his boat was swamped by a wave said he sang to keep his and his friend’s spirits up until a rescue crew arrived.

Cameron Haynes and a friend were pulling up craypots off Geraldton, on Western Australia’s Mid West coast on December 27, when they were thrown from the boat.

“He went overboard then I went overboard [but] we could not get back in … because the boat was full of water,” Mr Haynes said.

“We tried baling but that…