The storm had come out of nowhere and the five men were sitting in the boat were being thrown around and bounced up and down, as each wave hit. Jack looked around each of the men in the boat were all worried and scared about the strength of the storm they had gotten caught in. Ric was standing with Alf trying his hardest to keep make sure that both of them stayed safely inside the boat. Whilst Dan, Brad and Jack tried their best to keep the boat upright and heading back to the jetty by the diner.
It is always the way that when in life threatening situations your biggest regrets come to light. For Jack he just kept thinking about Martha and those damn divorce papers, he shouldn't have signed them he should have stuck to his original plans and told her he wanted to try again. But now he was stuck in this horrid storm and was starting to think that he may never get the chance.
The boat was coming close to capsizing but they were able to keep it upright. Struggling with the ropes trying to pull the sail down before it the wind forced them to capsize. But just before they got it completely down a massive gust of wind caught it pulling the whole boat away from Summer Bay and off toward a sand bank.
Dan, Brad and Jack rushed about trying to get the boat back on course. They tried everything they could possibly think of, but it was no use. The boat was pulled onto the sand bank and was toppled onto its side when the wind couldn't push the whole thing anymore.
The five men were thrown from the boat and onto the sand as the boat fall to its side. Ric and Alf only narrowly missed being hit by the side of the boat they had been sitting on. Brad and Dan were thrown so that they landed near the underside of the boat. But Jack has somehow managed to be able to stay inside the boat and was lying under the mast pole.
They were all unconscious due to the force of which they had been thrown onto the sand. Flash and images went through Jacks mind childhood memories, fun times with his dad and brother over the years, friends from work. His mind then became swapped with images and memories of Martha, the first time they met, their first kiss, their first date, their wedding day. Gosh she looked so beautiful that day; he remembered her surprise during their first dance. He remembered all the good time that they had had together. It was in that moment that no matter what there would never be anyone else for him but Martha.
All of a sudden Jack was woken by a sharp stabbing pain in his lower leg. He tried to sit up and see what it was but couldn't see past the mast that he was still under.
He started yelling hoping one if the others guys would be able to hear him and help him. "Alf...Ric...Brad...Dan" Over and over he screamed out their names. The rain and wind were still pounding against the boat, to which jack became thankful that he was stuck under the protection of the boat rather than outside.
After about ten minutes of screaming he finally heard someone calling his name, the voice was coming closer and closer to where Jack lay stuck. He started calling harder and louder hoping they could hear him.
Finally Brad and Dan came running under the boat. They spotted Jack straight away.
"Where are Ric and Alf?" Jack asked hoping that everyone was alright. He really couldn't stand the thought of being stuck there when his friends were seriously injured or worse.
"Their fine mate they are just trying to figure out where we are and how we can signal for help." Dan explained Jack was so relieved he felt like a massive weight had been lifted off his shoulders. Now he could focus on the literal weight on top of him.
"You however are a different story you look well and truly stuck under there, not to mention that hook sticking out of your leg." Brad tried to stay as calm as he could, so he wouldn't worry Jack too much. "Can you move at all?"
Jack started wiggling around, but was unable to wriggle out from the mast because there wasn't enough room in the small triangle he was under to get both his shoulders out of it.
"Yeah, I just can't get out from under the mast." The three men looked at each other trying to figure out how they could get Jack out.
"What if we were to dig under you have more room under the mast." Brad suggested, as he bent down near Jack to be able to see under more easily. Dan bent down as well.
"That could wor..." just then the three men could hear the faint sound of a helicopter in the storm that had settled slightly but was still very heavy.
"Go and signal it for help. I'll try to get myself out." Jack yelled as Brad and Dan looked anxiously between where they could hear the helicopter and where Jack was stuck under the mast. Before racing out into the rain and trying to wave down the helicopter along with Alf and Ric.
The spotlight from the helicopter landed right on the four waving men, they were sure that it had seen them up they also knew that it would be too dangerous to attempt a rescue now.
As soon as the helicopter left the men run back to the boat to help Jack get out, only to find that he had got himself almost completely out whist they had been outside.
When Jack had got himself out with some help from Dan and Ric the five men sat under the capsized boat waiting for rescue, secure in the fact that the helicopter had seen them, and that none of them had any major injures. Alf had also managed to get the hook out of Jacks leg and patch it up a bit with a first aid kit that had on the boat.