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New Zealand, man lost at sea,  Rob Hewitt, Navy, 20 years, become a professional diving instructor, crayfish hunt, easy for Rob, they are diving in the water, Rob is having deep thoughts, they can’t find crayfish the whole day they are searching, one of the men found a big crayfish so Rob wants to find a bigger crayfish so they can be surprised so he is diving alone, when he is diving he takes something for his wife, he found a crayfish but the crayfish got away so Rob is swimming after it, he was far from the boat, he got hit by a powerful red current, that caused him to go further the ocean in, when he is finally above the water after the red current he was really far from the boat, he can still see the boat so he is swimming to the boat, but the boat doesn’t seem to get any closer, so finally he is screaming to them to get rescued but that didn’t work, after two hours the crew alarmed the coast guard, Rob saw them but the coast guards didn’t, after 5 hours there was a plane flying above him and the plane didn’t see him either, now it’s dark and there are sharks swimming around him under him, so he is just lying on the ocean to no draw any attention to the sharks, 18 hours later he woke up and he is still in the ocean, he is 16 kilometers from the mainland 20 hours later he becomes friends with the crayfish he had caught hours ago so that he wouldn’t be alone, 28 hours later Rob got hit by the wind and he found out that his skin was and vulnerable to bacteria, injury and his nails were coming off, he started to vomit, he still has the crayfish in the bag and ate it even though it was his ‘friend’ he ate but he needed to survive but he still needs water, so later on it started to rain it was a miracle for Rob, 36 hours later it is becoming a night later Rob found an island and he tried to swim to it but that didn’t work because no matter how hard he swam it just didn’t work, he was exhausted so that’s why he began blacked out, because he was blacked out he was hallucinating and hallucinated that he was again at land drinking some soda, he spends a night alone at the sea,  42 hours later he is having deep thoughts about his life, he sees a shark in the sea that is swimming around him he is lucky that he has a knife and can protect himself against the shark, but he didn’t need to stab the shark it went away, it is very sunny and it felt like for Rob that he was toasted, all the injuries on him got ‘cooked’, he tried to go under water to escape from the sun but that also hurt him, on the same day he was saying ‘goodbye’ to his family to talking to god, he was doing that because he wanted to drown himself and free himself from the suffering, but that didn’t work and is still alive, he felt gutted when he was still alive, 68 hours later (lost at sea) it is now night and Rob is saying the names of his loved ones to feel closer to them, he laid down to sleep he didn’t care if he died in his sleep or not, but he is lucky because the current that took him to North turned around and took him to the South he doesn’t notice because he is too weak, Rob had again a hallucination where he was taking off his wetsuit and he was claustrophobic because of it and took it off, but that isn’t safe because that is what floated him, 78 hours later he got finally rescued by the life guards.

Summary:

This episode plays off in New Zealand, it starts with an old navy diver Rob Hewitt. After 20 years in the navy he stopped and wanted to find something else to do in his life. So, he is trying to be a professional diving instructor.

It’s 6 o’clock in the morning, he is late to a crayfish hunt that he is joining to help the other fishmen. Rob thinks it is easy for him because he was 20 years a diver in the navy. When he and the other fishmen are diving, while Rob is diving, he is having deep thoughts about life itself and is also trying to find some crayfish. But he couldn’t find a crayfish the whole day, but he wasn’t the only one on the boat. But when a fisherman showed his big crayfish proudly to Rob, he wanted to find a bigger crayfish to show it. When they finally dived for the last time for the day Rob went with his diving buddy, but his buddy was not feeling it and swam up, so Rob went alone diving. Diving alone was one of the no’s when he was in the navy except this time, he thought it wouldn’t matter because it was much easier than in the navy, so he went alone. While he was diving, he found a big crayfish just when he thought he caught the crayfish, it went away quickly. He didn’t want to go back so Rob swam after the crayfish a big mistake, because he was swimming far from the boat and Rob got hit by the red current. That got him further from the boat, but he got his crayfish! When he went up, he saw that he was one kilometer away from the boast. Instead screaming to the boat so that the men would pick him up, he swam to it. He didn’t want them to think that a navy diver with experience over 20 years couldn’t handle a crayfish hunt. But it didn’t matter how much he swam to it, he couldn’t get any closer but got further away from the boat. So, he didn’t have any chose to scream to the boat, but they couldn’t hear him.

Two hours later the crew on the boat alarmed the west coast that a diver was missing. After the alarm was ringed there were boats everywhere. Rob saw the guards and screamed to them that he was much further away, except they didn’t see him and didn’t hear them.

5 hours lost at sea there was a plane flying above him, he thought that he was finally getting rescued that wasn’t the case. It got dark and there are sharks swimming everywhere he is lucky that he had a dark wetsuit that didn’t draw any attention to him from the sharks. He was still scared so he tried not to move and because he isn’t moving, he fell asleep.

20 hours lost at sea, he is 16 kilometers away from the mainland. He learned in the navy that loneliness will kill you, Rob remembered that he still had the bag with the crayfish in it he named it and they became friends.

28 hours lost at sea Rob got hit by the wind and when that happened everything hurt. That is because his body got vulnerable to bacteria, his skin and his nails were falling off. He also started to vomit the last things in his stomach, Rob knew that he wouldn’t survive when he wouldn’t eat. So, he ate the crayfish even though he was friends with it. A few hours later it started to rain, it was a miracle for Rob because that meant that would survive longer.

36 hours lost at sea Rob found an island when it became night; he screamed and tried to swim to the island, but the current was too strong, Rob still tried to swim to the island but no matter how much he tried it wouldn’t get any closer and the current took him further away. Rob was exhausted and blacked out, because of that he was beginning to hallucinate that he was on the island drinking a soda.

42 hours lost at sea, while Rob was having deep thoughts about his life, there was a shark swimming around him. Luckily, he has a knife to protect himself if he needed to, he would stab the shark, he luckily didn’t need to do that. Because of the shark Rob moved a lot that didn’t do much good to his health it was very sunny and hot. His injuries were burning it felt like he was being cooked alive he tried to escape from the sun to go under the water. But of the sea salt that hurt his scars more.

When the sun went away a little bit, he was talking to God that He should take care of his family it was sort like a goodbye to his life. He didn’t have any hope more anymore he just wanted everything to end, that why he tried to drown himself. Except that didn’t work and is still alive.

68 hours lost at sea, Rob is feeling very lonely, so he started saying the names of his loved ones to feel closer to them. He laid down closing his eyes not caring if he would survive or not. Because he is exhausted, he isn’t noticing that the current change it courses to the South instead to the North.

He blacked out again and again he had a hallucination, he hallucinated that he was taking off his wetsuit. When he woke up, he felt claustrophobic and took off his wetsuit that was dangerous because the wetsuit was the only thing that kept him alive all this time.

78 hours lost at sea because of the current he was taken back where he got lost, he heard sounds of people, but he thought that he was hallucinating again. But that wasn’t the case, he got rescued!