Douglas Robertson

So Robin swam to the life raft and he was the first one to get in the raft.

I was at the raft, but I thought it was leaking.

It was leaking and I was trying to fix the leak.

But little did I know that the rafts have enough CO2 in them to blow up and to fully inflate in the cold regions of the world, the Arctic and the Antarctic.

So when they're in the tropics, they've actually got an excess of CO2, and it just leaks off.

I didn't realize that was what was happening.

All I could see was CO2 leaking out of the raft, so I was trying to fix it.

I was in the water then, and the twins then made it across to the raft.

My dad got to the raft.

He must have been the fourth one on the raft.

My mum got caught in the rigging of the Lucetta.

She went down, and she was still trying to get things to bring water.

This would be useful, but she'd left it too late.

But she did get off the Lisette, and I met her in the water and said to her, Mum, have you got a patch or something I can fix this leak with?

And she handed me an orange, and it was floating in the water.

And I thought, my God, how am I going to fix that with an orange?

But my mum must have gotten the wrath then, so she must have been the next to last.

And my brother reminded me the other day that I was helping people onto the raft.

Once the leak had stopped, the CO2 pressure had come down and just stopped leaking, I was helping the others get onto the raft.

I was giving them an arm up.