A Lake Macquarie man stood on the bottom of an overturned cruiser in gentle seas off the coast of Forster in pitch dark calling for his dad who had vanished after the pair scrambled from the doomed vessel moments earlier.
It was a calm and clear night, Scott Beeby told a Coronial inquest into the disappearance and presumed death of Alan Bruce Beeby at Newcastle courthouse on Tuesday, but the boat had swung and turned onto its side just after 2am on January 26.
