Mario Melchiot
speaker
1,531 appearances
11 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 29 Jun
Mario Melchiot’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Next morning, the island was completely out of sight.
He endured a relentless four-day storm, but he didn't have a coffin to turn into a jet ski, which MacGyver did.
And aside from the physical exertion of keeping himself and the boat afloat, the exposure was grueling.
It was cold every day, every night.
He survived by eating small amounts of that raw fish, using his bucket to collect drinking water from the near constant rainfall.
And his spirits were lifted when a gannet landed on his boat and stayed until the following morning, taking it as a good omen.
He even talked to the bird, remembering with a laugh, I said, go find my friends, fly back to me.
Yeah.
And then after you've been to the island, come back and say, you're all good, G. I didn't say G, but I just said it.
G for Gannett.
How did he get found?
On the seventh day, a Royal New Zealand Air Force Poseidon aircraft
spotted his dinghy and signalled him by blinking his lights.
He described the immense relief.
I was so happy when I saw it.
I was very, very happy.
And that evening he was picked up by a Taiwanese fishing trawler.
Unreal.
The crew took him immediately on board and fed him with noodles.
And he was returned to his family.
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