Glenn Anderson

You're on the Ningaloo Reef, which is one of the most amazing reef systems in the world.

And there's whale sharks, humpback whales, dugong turtles, manta rays, beautiful coral, like anything you could possibly want to be around as an ocean person is up there.

So it's a really special place for me.

And that's where we're going to go again in 21.

I was obviously going to take Ruby with me this time.

She was 11 years old and I'd gotten a hesitant approval from her mother.

Her mother and I had previously separated but we were still on really good terms and she was supportive of letting the kids have holidays and adventures and wasn't looking to deny them experiences.

I tried to eat something and then vomited it back up again.

Ruby hadn't eaten anything, and I was trying to encourage her to drink water, but she was just kind of saying, if I drink it, I'm going to throw it up.

So, yeah, we were all kind of low on food and low on energy by the time the morning came around.

I came up for my watch rotation and it was gone and the person that was on watch hadn't seen it go.

So we weren't quite sure how long it had been gone for.

We turned the boat around and went back to try and see if we could find her back at night with swell and darkness.

It's pretty hard to find a 10-foot dinghy bobbing around in the ocean.

As we approached Durian Bay, given regard to the seasickness that was on board, trying to increase the comfort of the crew basically, I decided that we could pull into Durian Bay and sail through the bay rather than outside the reef and then kind of sail around the bay to the other side, around to Sandy Cape.

It just meant that we'd be out of the swell a bit more and hopefully it would be even more comfortable.

There'd been nothing ahead of where we were sailing that had caused me any concern.

I'd been looking for a good 10, 15 minutes down this passage and hadn't seen any waves or anything that had really kind of made me think, oh, this is not the right place to be.

All of a sudden I heard a noise, a noise of a wave breaking just off to our port side.

And I looked and probably 50 meters away there was a wave which I would say would have been about 15 feet high.