Richard Fidler
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Why did you suddenly realise you were going to be in this raft for quite a while?
So what does that mean?
What are the consequences of not sending off a Mayday signal and not having an emergency radio aboard this little inflatable life raft you're 10 minutes sitting in?
Right, a ship and a plane and they'll find you.
Yeah, the cavalry would turn up.
So then you have to conclude that it's going to be a couple of days maybe before someone realises you're even missing.
Right.
So the situation's bad, but if we're rational and we work together, we'll be all right.
This is what Ken Jones is telling you, the first mate.
Yes.
And we all signed up for that.
All of us, except for the skipper.
The second engineer, John Sloan.
Yeah.
He was in a bit of trouble.
Why was he in a bit of trouble?
And what did that mean for him?
The next day, someone spotted Bruny Island.
Now, you'd been heading west...
But Bruny Island's just directly south of Hobart.