Richard Fidler

That's right.

It's like everyday apparel in that part of Tassie, it is, yeah.

He stopped for you, though.

And your family.

Everyone had been told you were dead, including Joni, your fiancée.

Absolutely disgusting.

Then I suppose once you were able to get to a phone, how were you able to tell Joni you were still alive?

Yeah, scones.

You know, that's lovely.

But for a man who's starving to death, there's not a vast amount of nutritional value in a scone.

No.

It wasn't like they didn't give any space bars or energy drinks or anything like that, right?

There was a Marine Court of Inquiry eventually into the sinking.

The Tasmanian Transport Commission that owned the ship was found to have performed with gross incompetence and callousness

The ship was found to have not been seaworthy.

The emergency provisions were inadequate and the extreme.

The captain was incompetent and unable to properly operate a radio.

The search was ridiculous.

There was vast amounts of arse covering afterwards from the authorities.

And then the barristers, some of the barristers in this case, as they questioned you and others, tried to hang responsibility on the dead men.