Jack Laurence

They're responding.

The family piles onto the loose set and they were off.

And for those on board, that distinction matters.

Douglas says he was almost immediately terrified as he got his first taste of the sheer power of the ocean.

Because the ocean doesn't have to be angry to be dangerous.

Sometimes it's simply curious.

And sometimes curiosity is enough to leave you stranded in the middle of nowhere.

And that was now the reality for the Robertson family.

Next time on What I Survived.

This farming family from the English countryside had swapped rolling fields for rolling waves.

And they were off on the adventure of a lifetime.

And at the mercy of Mother Nature.

But little did they know at the time just what she had in store for them.

Next time, on What I Survived.