Will Oxley

Yeah, so the boat is now upright, got at least a metre of water and of course the hatch is no longer able to be pulled shut.

Yeah, to go below you go through the hatch.

And so we managed to get the motor started and I remember having, I then had a chat with

My very good friend, Wayne Miller, who was the owner and skipper of the boat.

And I said, oh, Wayne, the radios are not great.

We need to turn on the EPIRB, which is the emergency position beacon.

And Wayne's at six foot six and a giant of a man and had worked in the mines and everything.

He said, oh, but Will, that's for grave and imminent danger.

And I said...

Wayne, let's go through this.

So the boat is full of water.

The radios are not working.

We haven't yet started the engine.

And its structural integrity is in some doubt.

That's what they mean by gravity but at danger.

Well, he then just said, oh, yeah, good point.

And...

Those that were watching the conversation say that that's pretty much how it went.

And that was pretty much the tone of the conversation.

Well, we thought that we had back then a 406 EPIRB, which was then a modern EPIRB, would tell the safety people,