In this podcast from Behind the life with Adam Lambert, Brett Archibald recalls his incredible story of survival, near-death experiences, mental endurance and finally being rescued. We first featured this remarkable story in our S+L June 2019 issue and online here. You can also get the full story by purchasing Brett’s enthralling book ‘Alone Lost Overboard in The Indian Ocean’.
It all started with an email, a tantalising invitation to surf the world’s best waves in a magnificent tropical paradise. Brett Archibald couldn’t resist.
In April 2013 the Cape Town businessman jetted off to Indonesia to join eight of his closest friends for a dream surf safari. In Padang, West Sumatra, they boarded the Naga Laut, a boat they’d chartered to take them to the remote Mentawai Islands, one of the world’s most exotic and alluring surf spots. But within hours the boat sailed into a storm and so began Brett’s nightmare ordeal – seasick and vomiting over the side of the vessel in the middle of the night, he fell overboard. And the worst part of all? Nobody had seen what had happened to him!
In The Search for Brett Archibald, the gutsy South African reveals how for 28-and-a-half hours he had to battle sharks, jellyfish, bloodthirsty seagulls and his own mental demons as he tried to swim for land, hoping and praying that some passing ship would spot him.
[Podcast with the Pro: Brett Archibald Alone in the Indian Ocean]
