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AUSTRALIA: RESCUED YACHTSMAN TONY BULLIMORE SPEAKS OF ORDEAL

(10 Jan 1997) English/Nat Rescued British yachtsman Tony Bullimore has, Friday, been speaking about his four-day ordeal spent in the hull of his upturned boat in the South Ocean. Bullimore, speaking from the Australian frigate HMAS Adelaide which rescued him Thursday, told how he had been on the brink of death. British yachtsman Tony Bullimore, recovering from his four-day ordeal spent in he hull of his upturned boat, told how he thought he was on the brink of death. He spent four days in the upturned hull of his yacht after it overturned in heavy storms during the Vendee Globe round-the-world race is icy waters 900 miles from Antarctica. Bullimore, who suffered slight hypothermia and lost part of his little finger during the ordeal, was rescued hours after fellow shipwrecked competitor Frenchman Thierry Dubois. UP SOUND: "The seas were getting bigger and bigger and it was getting really really horrendous and the keel on my racing yacht Global Exide Challenger snapped off and once the keel came off the boat did a roll over and it was really quite unbelievable. I mean the keel came off like breaking a match stick, it just went snap, and within seconds, literally within a few seconds the boat was sitting upside down with me sitting inside the boat, sitting and standing and sliding around on the roof with water slowly seeping in, and as you can imagine in a major storm it's not a very nice way to hang about really is it. It was determination and a series of working out the logistics of how to survive and then following those logistics through, in doing practical things to keep the boat upright, I mean there was all sorts of problems like one of the main windows that was under the water was being battered by the end of the boom and eventually it caved in and the water came in like Niagara Falls upside down which is when it really got serious and within seconds the cabin was full, that particularly bit of the cabin was all but full. I really believed I was just on the brink and then I started asking myself questions like am I really preparing my grave, I really did, I really did, and you're the only person I have said this to, not another living soul. I started to wonder somewhere deep down in my mind I didn't really ask it, but I was actually preparing my grave. When I dived out and came out of the water and looked over at the Adelaide, I could only get a tremendous ecstasy that I was looking at life. I was actually looking at a picture of what life was all about that I was saved." SUPER CAPTION: Tony Bullimore, British yachtsman Bullimore is due to return to Perth on Monday morning where he will be met by family and friends. But many are questioning the wisdom of such solo races -- the cost of rescue mission is thought to be over seven (m) million US dollars, a sum the Australian tax-payer will front. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...