The man, known only as Tremine, is a hobby fisherman from Borroloola, in Australia’s Northern Territory, who had been castaway alone on the island for nearly three days in scorching temperatures.

Tremaine said he had reached a shore he didn’t recognise and had been hit by bad heatstroke, he had stayed in the cave for the whole second day and night, before he was found.

“His life hung by the thinnest of threads”

“We first of all saw a cooler on the rocks and then one of us spotted — so there’s somebody there, there’s somebody there” Wade says “he was pretty desperate.”