doleque, puff - good words and my sentiments exactly.
Happy to wait for the report to come out - to those of you insisting on 'no speculation', most reasonable folk can decipher the truth from the fiction - so there's certainly no harm done in learning a few good lessons (or indeed reminders) some time ahead of the official report.
But back to my point - having lived on the island as a 'guest', and spent the best years of my life with the locals - I have no doubt that these guys are truly heroes. Measured and reserved, reasonable yet determined, the only reason there were no deaths that night was the heroism shown by the rescuers - like others, I will be supporting their nomination for Australians of the Year.