AMAZING SEA RESCUE SAGA OF SOME LUCKY CASTAWAYS! Shipwreck trio saved after 82 days on island. 28 March 1981 Daily Express ROBINSON CRUSOE REUNION. A story of shipwreck and survival against incredible odds. 15 April 1981 London Daily Express This is the true story of Gordon Brace and his wife Elisabeth, alongside three friends, as they attempt to be the first ever to cross the Indian Ocean in a 40-foot single-engine game fishing motor boat. A journey spanning 4000 sea miles from Sri Lanka in the East to the African coastline of Kenya. It's a story of endurance and survival, facing enormous seas that led to being stranded on a deserted, uninhabited tropical island within one of the most remote atolls and pristine archipelagos to be found anywhere in the world.