Why are you turned off fishing?
When you cross the road, do you look left and right before crossing? if you cross without looking left and right and you get run over, do you think it will put people off crossing the road?
Education is the key, 90%of my fishing is from the rocks and we fish some extreme locations but NEVER do we venture when we see or read conditions are not right.
seabreeze and BOM understand wind and swell and know what the right and wrong combinations are, wear appropriate shoes etc.
I am sick of hearing and reading about the media and others beating up rock fisho's, perhaps we need to spend more time educating people.
thats my 5 cents anyway and was sad to hear of the deaths