
In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dominic Haakon Myrtvedt Purcell (born 17 February 1970) is a British-born...