The family struggled to get into the dinghy as their charter boat burned.
“Getting off the big boat into the little boat was the hardest part of all,”
“[it was a case of] just hang on and look for that chopper in the sky.”
The dinghy soon took on water and the family tried bailing it out with a two-litre ice-cream bucket, but the dinghy took on too much water and rolled.
A rescue helicopter had been called off when the family had reached the dinghy, but was called back fifteen minutes later.