EPISODE 3:  Agony, thirst, hunger ... hope.

After a rough night, the survivors, numbering around 100 men, have the makeshift raft, Carley raft, and motor boat which is being used as a refuge for the seriously wounded. Sharks are circling and another threat appears in the form of deadly sea snakes.

“… although you weren’t completely out of the water it made you feel a little bit safer because sharks and things were sort of hanging around and you didn’t know just when you were going to be pruned off round about the knees, you know.”. Ordinary Seaman, Rex Pullen

“Joe Currie floated near us for days. Sometimes the sharks would nudge him from underneath and take a bit out of him, but he stuck around just the same … I knew it was Joe because of the ring on his finger. When we found we had to go back into Betano, Joe said to me: ‘If anything happens to me, send this ring back to my mother’. I told him I would ...”. Stoker, Ray Raymond.

“On the thwart opposite me was a Javanese bloke with his entrails hanging out of his stomach. Beside him was Ordinary Seaman Fred Smith. His nose was gone, and he had bullets in his stomach and his entrails were hanging out too, so my only view was these two sets of entrails. Smith died that night … but the native bloke lived another couple of days, so I still had entrails to look at. But I wasn’t much to look at myself with my jaw shot away.”  Ordinary Seaman, Ted Morley.