Kelsey Waghorn

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553 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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How Do You Cope? · Kelsey Waghorn: 'There’s nothing quite like someone telling you, "you are normal"' · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

I think a couple went to hospital with smoke inhalation and we lost the boat entirely.

It burnt the waterline and sank.

And then the next one, which was two years later, I was on another island, Whale Island, and I had a 73-year-old passenger fall off a 12-meter cliff onto the rocks.

And I stayed with him for about an hour, maybe closer to two hours.

And yeah, he unfortunately died about 36 hours later.

Yeah, I'd been seeing a psych since after the boat fire.

So I did get help after both of them and then went back to the same psych after the eruption as well.

So yeah, I've been getting psychological help since the boat fire.

It was all reaction.

I'm lucky to now know about myself that I cope very well under extreme pressure.

I don't cope well under mild pressure, but I cope well under extreme pressure.

So it was just, yeah, it was just action.

And I mean, all I could do at a time for...

Lionel who fell all I could do was comfort him and just keep pressing for them to hurry the helicopter up um really that was all I could do like I was 23 I think at the time I was young 23 24 and um

yeah absolutely not equipped to deal with that and it's not like i can move him the only comfort i could give him was put my jersey under his head as we waited for the helicopter so yeah i mean there wasn't a lot i could do other than just keep sort of talking to him and reassuring him that help was coming even though it felt like it wasn't coming but um yeah i mean

I don't really know how you can actually prepare for that situation as sort of someone in their very early 20s who the only sort of first aid we're sort of given was sort of stuff where help, it was like mainland first aid I suppose is what we ended up calling it, where you sort of called the ambulance and all you had to do was kind of fill in sort of 10, 30 minutes before the help got there and then this was like major, major injuries and

It took me a long time.

Even after the boat fire, the way I was a guide was a lot different to before the boat fire.

I was a lot more safety orientated.

I was a lot more rules focused.

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