After a head-on collision with his mate's boat that left him unconscious, his teeth rearranged and at least four ribs broken, Dave Ramsay could probably be ready to call it a day with his jet-boating career.
But the 55-year-old, who spoke to the Herald from his hospital bed, says all he is worried about now is his boat and how soon he can get back out on the water.
Mr Ramsay, who runs a Tauranga audio-systems hire centre, was in his 3.7m Hamilton jetboat on the Waihou River, out for a day of what he calls "adventure jet boating" with a friend from Wellington and his mate Lindsay in another boat with a passenger of his own.
The group set off from Te Aroha on Sunday for Okoroire, about 30km south, but about an hour into their journey they went up a side stream to explore.
"I went about 60m up the stream and turned around and came back to the other boat and said to him 'we're right, we're clear, we can go around' and so he went.