Rick Rodriguez and his three friends from Tavernier, Florida, spent 10 hours on a lifeboat and dinghy after a giant whale sank their sailboat, the 44ft Raindancer, in the Pacific Ocean.
This had been on a planned three-week sailing excursion from the Galápagos Islands to French Polynesia when disaster struck at 1.30 pm on 13 March.
After hearing a loud noise, Rodriguez and his crew were thrown by the large impact and, with their boating experience, quickly...