Eleven fishermen stranded on an island hundreds of kilometres from civilisation. Six days without food and water. One unbelievable tale of survival.
When Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa slammed into Rowley Shoals, 300 kilometres west of Broome, two Indonesian fishing boats were caught in its path.
One boat, the Putri Jaya — with at least nine Indonesian fishermen on board — sank, the men feared drowned, while another boat, the Express 1, survived the storm before running aground on Bedwell Island.
