‘I was drowning but my brother wouldn’t let me go’

He’s a born survivor who said he owes his life to his brother and crewmate.

The Irish fisherman who survived a fall overboard into one of the world’s coldest and most treacherous oceans has spoken for the first time about his survival.

James McCarthy, 36, said he “had breathed his last” and was “prepared to die” after falling from his brother’s trawler into the icy waters of the Gulf of Alaska.