After 24 hours without food and water, a day longer he and his crew may have died.

After running into difficulties while travelling from Southern Ireland to France, David Faulkner and his crew of four were forced to abandon their converted fishing boat and take to their life raft. Seven terrifying days later they were rescued by a Cornish Coastguard helicopter, after managing to call emergency services on a mobile phone.

Read more in The Newquay Voice and The Guardian...