Douglas Robertson

But, you know, it would have been so easy to just say, well, I don't know, mate.

You know, we're all going to die, aren't we?

You know, it would have been so easy to say that, but not Dougal.

And no, my mom, given that Dougal then took on that leadership role, my mom

was right behind him looking after her family, taking care of the twins, taking care of us, sacrificing her own comfort for us and making sure that we came first.

That's how my mum was.

And, you know, the two together, the reason, you know, people ask why has the story lasted for so long, you know.

Well, the dinghy itself is in the Maritime Museum, which is a place where people can go and see it and the artifacts and the stories told there.

But also, this story of survival is different because my mum and dad were not trying to survive for their own sake.

They were trying to save their family and their own survival didn't matter.

They needed to save their kids and they didn't let us down.

They stuck to their words, those promises that were given, those promises that were given right at the outset.

And Dougal never stopped trying, never ever stopped trying to get us home.

Well, I'll tell you what my brother said about it.

They went back to school, and two months after we were picked up in the Pacific, they were back in the school classroom with kids who'd never left Leek in Staffordshire, sitting, looking out of the window, thinking, what the hell are we doing here?

How did it come that we're in this classroom?

And they never got over it.

They never got over it.

what had happened to them.

They were very young.