Mireille Day

It was that serious.

And so we're all looking at each other, goggled eye.

I mean, this is a moment, this is a moment we could die.

And you're in just the middle of the ocean.

In the middle of the ocean and it's emptiness, you know, it's blue emptiness.

There's sky and sea and that's all you can see.

No.

Weirdly enough, when you think of the word lifeboat, you think that's going to save your life.

But somehow to shift from our position where we were on this wrecked boat that was our home to go to another unknown, nobody wanted to do that and no one was rushing to get into that boat.

lifeboat that Jean had also, as an aside, said at one point, oh, I've never tested the lifeboat.

It could sink for all I know the minute we get in it.

And one of the other crew members said, what do we need to take?

And he said, oh, nothing.

There's water and glucose biscuits on board.

It's part of the kit.

And then Jean trying to go dive down and look at the major damage and he sort of did a makeshift repair of it.

He decided that perhaps if we got to land somewhere, that possibly he could fix, do some repairs.

So Jean consulted the pilot book and found that there was a sandbank near Borneo.

So we headed towards that.

Well, it was okay for the first night and we were glad to see that there was some driftwood on the island, that at high tide it wasn't submerged, that we could finally walk around at some point.