Douglas Robertson

He said, all our food and water's on the dinghy.

And that was so precious to us.

And the captain said, we have food.

And if you do go and see it, look upon it with amazement that six people could have possibly survived in such a small dinghy, a small dinghy that had three completely different worlds going on within it.

My dad and the twins in the bow, it had me and Robin and my mother on the stern, and it had the watch keeper on the thwart who was looking out, looking for a rescue ship, looking for turtles too, and other fish that we could catch.

so there were like three worlds and steering steering the dinghy as well we could steer it about 45 degrees across the wind and um

You know, as I say, if you go there and see it, you will be just amazed that people could survive in something like that in the Pacific Ocean for so long.

You know, that is my message that I pass on with this, that wherever there's life, there's hope.

Never give up hope.

If you've got life, you've got hope.

You can make something happen.

And to us, when we were...

At the moment of shipwreck, it seemed impossible to us that we would ever survive, that we would ever get back to land.

And yet it happened.

I've got to say that you touched on a point there that if you needed to advertise in the Sunday Times for a man to survive in a life raft for 38 days, Dool would have been the man to pick because he never gave up.

He was strong, brave, courageous, a leader.

He was a leader of men.

And he never, never stopped thinking about getting his family home.

But he said, I got you into this.

I need to get you out.