title: Saved: The Extraordinary Tale of Survival and Rescue in the Southern Ocean
author:  Tony Bullimore 
description: The dramatic rescue of Tony Bullimore in January 1997 was the exhilarating climax to one of the most remarkable survival stories of modern times. When Bullimores yacht <i>Exide Challenger</i> capsized in the icy vastness of the Southern Ocean, he had been at sea for two months, competing in the Vende Globe around-the-world race. Sheltering in a tiny air pocket in the upturned hull, some 2,500 kilometers from the southwest coast of Australia, he now prepared for his loneliest challenge. <i>Saved</i> takes us deep into the trauma of Tony Bullimores ordeal as he unfolds the events of his own past against the dramatic events that, hour by hour for nearly five days, were speeding him ever closer to his fate. Gripping and inspiring, <i>Saved</i> is the story of a true survivor.
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  Sunk at Sea
  
  
  Chapter One. TREATS OF OUR HERO'S EARLY LIFE, AND
  
  
  TOUCHES ON DOMESTIC MATTERS.
  
  Chapter Two. RECORDS A SUDDEN DEPARTURE, AND
  
  
  MARYANN'S OPINION THEREON.
  
  Chapter Three. TELLS OF THE SEA, AND SOME OF THE
  
  
  MYSTERIES CONNECTED THEREWITH.
  
  Chapter Four. A STORM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
  
  Chapter Five. ADRIFT ON THE WIDE OCEAN.
  
  Chapter Six. DESCRIBES A BOAT VOYAGE, AND TOUCHES
  
  
  ON CORAL ISLANDS.
  
  Chapter Seven. HOPES, FEARS, AND PROSPECTS ON THE
  
  
  CORAL ISLAND.
  
  Chapter Eight. IN WHICH OUR HERO SUGGESTS A PLAN
  
  
  WHICH GETS THE PARTY OUT OF ONE DIFFICULTY BUT PLUNGES THEM INTO
  
  
  ANOTHER.
  
  Chapter Nine. CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF THE DESPERATE
  
  
  CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PRISONERS.
  
  Chapter Ten. OUR HERO AND HIS COMRADES IN DISTRESS
  
  
  BECOME SAVAGE WARRIORS FOR THE NONCE.
  
  Chapter Eleven. A FIGHT, WHICH RESULTS IN A
  
  
  MISTAKE AND A HASTY FLIGHT.
  
  Chapter Twelve. SHOWS HOW SOUTH SEA MISSIONARIES
  
  
  DO THEIR WORK, AND THAT IF THE WHITES