Not unusual, tinnie, as I'm sure you know. Nor for the crew to see the ground and runway during the missed approach. Slant viz is very different to vertical viz.
Can someone answer my earlier question? Did he start out with alternate capability, or had he planned with no alternate capability?
One comment, where the poster said the fuel state was below fixed reserves when it alighted, would make me think he departed ,not carrying alternate fuel (or a TOPD PNR).
Surely three approaches and missed approaches would not have used up 2+ hours of fuel at cruising rates? (Which I would expect he'd have needed to be carrying Noumea as an alternate or as a TOPD PNR.)