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by Blanchard House for Apple Podcasts Released in November 2025, This 8 part series includes interviews from Anne, Douglas, Sandy and Neil as we immerse ourselves into the tale of their survival. Hosted by Becky Milligan, we delve into life before Lucette, before the attack, during and after. Please do take the time to listen to this podcast. https://www.apple.com/uk/tv-pr/originals/adrift/

https://www.meredithforreal.com/podcast-episodes/episode/7ca6a00e/ep-341-lost-at-sea-at-16-killer-whales-courage-remastered In this podcast episode, Douglas shares more than just a survival story. He shares his unique coming of age story & an opportunity to recalibrate what crisis is. You’ll also hear about killer whale attacks, eating sharks, drinking turtle blood, sea water enemas & adjusting to life on land after being rescued.

The 'Ednamair' has come out of retirement at last. For many years she has been living with Aunty Edna, one of her name sakes but she has travelled to Falmouth in Cornwall, where our voyage began to take her rightful place in the museum for small boats. She is dressed for the occasion as she was in the Pacific Ocean, with her upright oars, as a mast her sails flotation collar and as many original clothes and artefacts as we can find. We are now be able to share her with everyo

We were filmed by the National Geographic for an ongoing series they are doing called 'Expeditions to the Edge'. They take a true story dramatise it, then interview the real characters of the incident to get an inside view. It was aired on the National Geographic TV Channel. They were with us for two days interviewing each of us for approximately two hours . Heres a snapshot of Day 1 of the filming done by National Geographic. This was done back in the early 2000s so not enti

1992 Survive the Savage sea, was adapted from Dougals book, Survive the Savage Sea. Starring Robert Urich as Jack Carpenter (Dougal), and Ali Mcgraw as Claire (Linda). "Jack Carpenter and his wife, Claire, realize his life-long dream by selling the family farm and uprooting their four kids to buy the yacht ''Providence''. Their sons, Gary, Brian, and Timmy, give it an honest try and their daughter, Susan, decides to take a job in a port. Her place is taken by Wally Hudson, wh

by Linda Robertson Many people have asked me to write this book: After a sleepless night beset by the twittering of sparrows and starlings, and gentled by the coo of doves from the cowshed roof, the morning chorus bids me rise and start to write. Kerry Gold our lovely red setter dog is asking to go outside. I must make a cup of coffee, see how yesterday's new calf is. What are those woolly jumpers, the sheep bleating at, a fox or a stray dog perhaps?Alas, being a mere woman I

By Sandy Robertson After leaving Lowestoft in the late 1980s and heading for Sweden, the Ocean Dawn finally returned to Great Yarmouth as the honorary guest at the annual 'Heritage Herring Fayre' on 12th September 2000. Crew List: Sandy (Skipper), Debbie, Pete, Shona, John, Kieran (Chief Engineer), Warren, Linda, Alex, Charlotte and Cameron and Mitsy the Yorkshire Terrier. After 24hours of moderate to rough weather with the sea stateF8 during the night we sailed into Great Ya

Sea Trial to Beachy Head by Sandy Robertson After a good tidy up (making everything shipshape) and the tying up of all our dinghies and with a good weather forecast for the day, we decided to have our first day’s sea trial with the ‘Ocean Dawn’. We had spent many months preparing for this, although our living conditions were still fairly Spartan the time had come to test all the newly installed equipment.We had become very comfortable with our little space on the quayside, ne