Are you sure that Jamie didn't have a role in all that, delaying the advance, just so you'd take off your jeans? It's not like most men measure the outcome of such shenanigans...

Joking aside, sounds like quite the adventure. And regarding the rescue missions, I don't think anyone has died yet by not being rescued by a helicopter, and some unpleasant hours on a rock might help to reconsider choices about tide charts. Choices and responsibility and such...