How the mayday from the Sea Gypsy Enterprise went out and was received by the coast guard stations here and relayed.... It was only when the boat sank that the EPIRB.... Your EPIRB does not go off on a boat until the boat sinks. Our mayday went out before. While the captain was sending out the mayday, he told us that all the crew were in their survival suits. He had to go put his on. But he never got time to put his on. He had to jump in the water with no survival suit and swim to a cover of a fish box that was floating. From that he swam to the life raft, with nothing on, only a pair of shorts, and got into the life raft.
On February 1st, 2011. See this statement in context.