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Real Survival Stories, and it's hosted by me, John Hopkins.

In Real Survival Stories, we bring you astonishing tales of ordinary people thrust into

extraordinary situations, people suddenly forced to fight for their lives, stranded in the desert,

lost in the jungle, marooned in the mountains, shipwrecked on the high seas.

These individuals had everything against them, but even then, they refused to give in.

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Saturday June 6, 1998.

The deep sea fishing trawler, Sudur Havid, slides through the icy waters of the South Atlantic.

She's 200 miles from land at the edge of Antarctica.

23-year-old Britain, Matt Lewis, wakes from a restless sleep with an uneasy feeling flooding his thoughts.

After two months of sea, he's almost used to the incessant role of the Antarctic waves and the freezing blasts of polar wind.

He's even grown accustomed to the cramped confines of the aging rust bucket of a boat that has become his home.

But today, he knows instantly there's something's wrong.

Woken by the crash of falling objects, his sleepy eyes focus, trying to make sense of the strange slant of the curtains,

hanging away from the wall at an angle of 30 degrees.

Getting dressed quickly, another sudden sideways lurch of the cabin sends him fly.

Clutching handrails, Matt staggers through narrow corridors and up metal stairwells,

hauling himself up towards the deck.

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