Matt Cooper

Six days.

Yeah.

So I think that side of my... Does that take emotion out of your decision making?

Sorry, just to explain to people, DNR is do not resuscitate.

Did you have hope that he was going to beat all the odds?

And I think the book will be something for the children you've had subsequently when they're old enough to read it and understand that this will help them understand.

Tell us about them now.

What age are they?

Because there's an enormous amount in the story and we're not going to have time to talk about it all in the interview.

But that's probably a good thing because that would send people to the book anyway.

But you didn't grow up with this idea of going to sea, did you?

No, I come from a farm.

This just happened almost by chance.

Come on, let's call a spade a spade here.

You went into a very male-dominated profession and it must have been very, and it is, as you point out at times, very difficult even for somebody like even you who can talk to get a word in edgewise at times.

Do you miss the excitement of things like major drug busts and things like that?

Chasing down criminals in the high seas.

Do you not miss it?

What is it about being at sea?

So you had no experience of seasickness?