Richard Bradley

I'd only been back in Broome for two days.

I had like nearly 300 staples in my arm and I met Kate Sutton and it was a thunderbolts and lightning moment, you know.

It's a day I'll never forget.

It was earth shattering and maybe the seeds of what I was looking at when I closed the door on the whole base jumping thing

planted other seeds about oh wow this is so different to anything i've you know i've had relationships in the past but this is a very very different thing like this is all encompassing when you know you know and i was yeah i was knocked down before long kate has moved from sydney to broom and they've set up a small business together

I went off to work with another company here in Australia and jumped back in the water, just air diving, shallow, but ripping tides.

And it was a good test start.

As soon as I was back in the water, I was back in my happy place.

And to this day, it is still my happy place.

There's nothing more satisfying for me than having a task or a purpose and a body of water to jump into and get it done.

So I'm very, very grateful that

The universe conspired to send Kate my way and, you know, make a full rebound.

It's a happy ending.

It's a happy ending.

I don't give it undue emphasis because, you know, I believe that life is for living.

And, you know, we live in a world now where no matter where you look and these algorithms and the electronic stuff, it attempts to leverage that fear.

And we've got so much anxiety.

The insurance system, the litigation system, our systems have leveraged that fear.

And in leveraging it, they amplify it.

And I just don't buy into that noise.