00:00My boat kept on flipping and then I lost the oar.
00:08And then I started paddling in the kayak like this, and I look back at mum and I just wait
00:19there for mum, and then mum says, Bo, give Austin your oar, Austin, go get help.
00:28And I thought, I knew it would be a long way, because it was like four kilometres, but the
00:37kayak kept on taking in water, I was fighting rough seas, and then the kayak dumped me a
00:50million times, and then I was holding on to the kayak for so long, because I thought
00:58I saw something in the water and I was really scared, and I was just thinking, I was just
01:02thinking in my head, like thinking I was going to make it through, but I was also thinking
01:06about all my friends at school and friends of my Christian youth.
01:15And yeah, I just said, alright, not today, not today, not today, I have to keep on going.
01:22And so I get, there's like straps on the kayak for if you want to put stuff in the boat.
01:32I tied that to my life jacket so I could keep from putting the kayak, but that didn't help,
01:37just bring me out further.
01:40And so I untied the actual strap from the boat, and then I just started swimming with just
01:53my life jacket, and then after a while I found out that didn't work so took off my life jacket,
01:59I had to untied the rope to my foot, and still that didn't work so I had to untie the life jacket,
02:08and I had to just swim to shore.
02:11How challenging was that swim?
02:18I was very puffed out, but I couldn't feel how tired I was.
02:24I don't know, I was more thinking of a lot of things that, you know, what's happened
02:31in my life.
02:32I think at one point I was thinking of Thomas the Tank Engine.
02:36You know, trying to get the happiest things in my head, trying to make it through.
02:43Like not the bad things that would distract me and bring me out further.
02:47And at this time, you know, the waves are massive and I have no life jacket on.
02:54So anyway, I just keep swimming.
02:59I do breaststroke, I do freestyle, I do survival backstroke.
03:04You know, and then it took me about four, so I had the life jacket and the kayak for two hours,
03:14and then for the next two hours I was just swimming with no life jacket.
03:19I don't know, but at one point when I was doing breaststroke, I was looking, I can actually see underwater,
03:29which I couldn't do before.
03:31I just keep swimming, just keep swimming.
03:36And then finally I just made it to shore and I hit the bottom of the, you know, the beach,
03:51and I just collapsed.
03:53And then after that I had to sprint two kilometres to go get to the phone.
04:01And then when I got to the phone, there was a lot of foreign people on the beach,
04:07so I couldn't really get much help.
04:10And so I ran to the phone and I called triple zero and I had a call with triple zero.
04:18Police, I said I need helicopters, I need planes, I need boats.
04:25My family's out of sea.
04:31I was very calm about it.
04:34I think it was just a lot of shock.
04:36It just went through my mind and I just took it nice and easy.
04:42You just got some discussions to them and it was really difficult.
04:43You've got gotta get people down.
04:45You got a lot of sense?
04:46I didn't just think of what I was just going through with glasses.
04:47Okay.
04:48It's a lot of sleep sometimes.
04:49Okay.
04:50Do you mind if I could do this?
04:51Do you mind if it's looking for me?
04:53No, no, no, no.
04:55Do you understand?
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