Castaways tell of terrifying ordeal

FIVE people, including a Co Kerry resident, who spent almost a week stranded at sea in a tiny inflatable life-raft yesterday described their terrifying ordeal after surviving storms and 30ft waves.

The four men and a woman also ran out of food and water after their trawler sank off the Isles of Scilly last Wednesday.

More than a week later they were airlifted to safety by a helicopter when the life-raft drifted into an area of mobile phone reception off Cornwall’s north coast yesterday morning.