Mick Dolman

Yes.

So the chief cook put in charge of the opener and if worse comes to worse, we'll throw the bloody thing away.

But the cans were handy to get fresh water when it rained, yeah.

Were they a real danger to you?

Yeah, very much so.

Pedro Blanca is a big island at the bottom of Tasmania and a Japanese fishing boat some years before us crashed into it and 23 of their crew were killed.

And we paddled like billiards around that rock.

Well, there were so many people who had the finger in the pie but didn't know what to do once they got it in there.

Maritime Safety Authority in Canberra had a view about how the search should be conducted.

The Navy had a view about how they're going to get involved in it.

The Air Force too?

The Air Force, they're good at doing all this and we're not going to have anybody tell us how to do it in a different way.

And, of course, the bureaucracy within the Tasmanian Transport Commission was piss poor.

Was that just indifference or arse covering?

What was it?

I think indifference initially, then plenty of arse covering later in the play.

No.

No.

There was no full moons or anything like that.

Occasionally you might get a bit of moon, but in the main, during the day, you get a bit of light.