00:02I'm down at Darwin's iconic Mindal Beach where we've got a pretty important tourism drawcard
00:09event happening, the Beer Can Regatta. It's in its 52nd year this year and this morning we've seen
00:15families coming in by the dozens. There's probably a few couple hundred people just over there
00:20watching a tug-of-war event but the main event is coming later this afternoon when the boats behind
00:26me will take to Darwin waters braving crocodiles and more and try and duke it out for the Battle of
00:33Mindal. Now these boats aren't any ordinary boats they're rafts that have been made of drink containers
00:38mostly beer cans here on Mindal Beach. Now we had a chat with a few of these rafts engineers earlier
00:46about how they built their boats and what their tactics will be on the sea. I reckon you'd get to
00:52Indonesia on it. There's enough flotation in this to lift the Titanic I reckon she's yeah she'll be
00:59right. If the drums give up we've got our first line of defense and if they give up then we'll
01:05wait until they hit the water.
