Hail. Well met, fair countryman!

Two nineteen year old German girls decided to obtain Gap Year visas allowing them to explore New Zealand. Unlike tourist visas, Gap Year visas allow a visitor to make money working at odd jobs so as to more fully explore the New Zealand culture for a longer period of time.

While many youths decide to explore nightlife and wineries, the two German trekers simply hiked large swaths of New Zealand. During one trip they met a fellow German, a middle aged man who was foreman of a milking crew at a New Zealand ranch.

During informal discussions of the two girls intended destinations the crew foreman revealed that he owned a sailboat and could sail the girls to their next destination. The trusting, youthful young ladies assented and soon set sail on an extremely hazardous voyage in what is considered to be the most dangerous body of water in New Zealand. Moreover the winds at the time they departed were clearly from the wrong direction. It is doubtful the Captain notified his two passengers of the inadequacies of his boat and its equipment. Likely undisclosed was the fact that although the Captain had owned the boat for over a year he had very little training or experience in sailing and that his sailing style was described as "uninfluenced by any advice he had been given".

ON EDIT: Anniversary.

Gee, its been my experience that young nineteen year old German girls wearing pleasantly revealing hiking outfits tend to very easily get their photographs into the newspaper, yet for some reason only the "missing" Captain, not either of his "missing" passengers appear in the papers. And if any wonders about that status of "missing" lets just say that the police seem to know just as well as the Coroner knows that their bread is buttered by the Travel Industry. So the travel statistics reflect a good deal of political correctness to them. Until the bodies are actually found, there will be no Coronal Inquiry therefore there can be no finding of criminally negligent homicide. Indeed, until a body turns up the police consider the pretty young girls to be merely "missing" and therefore not dead. Have to pretty up the statistics for the Tourist Industry.