The son of a former England cricketer and his family nearly drowned after their boat hit a sleeping whale in the Atlantic. Zach Small, 33, his partner Kimberley Pelletier Girard, 29, and his daughters Anua, eight, and Willow, five, were sailing their catamaran from the Azores to the UK when disaster struck.
He heard a bang and saw water gushing in under the bed, and realised they'd struck a whale when he found a chunk of blubber. Zach sent out signals in the hope a nearby boat would come to the rescue - and after hours in the pitch black, an oil tanker came to rescue them.
But all their possessions were gone - including Zach's late wife's ashes - along with their boat. They made it back to England three days later - and are now rebuilding their lives.
