Richard Fidler

So when you set out out of the Derwent estuary, you're sitting too low in the water, you're taking the more treacherous west coast route.

What about the captain himself, Captain Cruikshank?

What did you notice about him, the state that he was in?

So the next morning you passed Metziker Island and there was a lighthouse keeper called Tony Parsi and he spotted your vessel and he thought the ship wasn't travelling well.

How was the ship behaving at this point?

Oh, it's not a joke.

It literally looked like a submarine in the water.

It was tilting to one side.

Why was it listing?

Because the cargo had moved.

Shouldn't the cargo have been strapped down pretty tight?

Now, you had done your stint at the wheel and you'd gone to bed.

Yep.

And then you were woken up.

Yeah.

When did you realise that...

You were in a major crisis all of a sudden.

So what, the ship's tilting now at an angle of what, like 40 degrees or something?

Right, it was too far gone.

Right, the tomahawks you needed to cut the ropes to free them.