Discovery

Sunday morning ... I am up at about 8 too nervous to eat breakfast and then down to the study to look for all my Oceanos paraphernalia, which luckily did not take me long to find. Then quick bath get dressed and wait, they got lost so ended up only arriving after 10:30. Eric & Chris, they transformed our lounge into a Studio in a very short time, D took Em off to the dump to take all the garden refuse and then to feed the ducks just so that she was out the way. And then the interview started, I must say that they are the nicest people I have met in a long time, besides the French guys who interviewed me, but they were equally as nice. They made me feel really at ease and the interview although it went on for over an hour did not feel like it.

They then did some shots of me in the kitchen paging through my scrap book, D and Em came home just as Eric & Chris had finished packing up, we all got in the car and went off to the Dockland to get something to eat, Eric treated us to lunch at Milano's. It worked out really well as Milano's which is an Italian restaurant really caters for the children, they had a children's section with a box of toys and all the kids just congregate round the box of toys, giving the adults a time to chat and not really have to worry about them. After lunch and a bottle of wine, we went out to the River and Chris did some more shots and then some of D, Em and I. We had a lovely afternoon and headed home, only got home at about 4:30 but it was really nice.

I was exhausted by last night and fell into bed at 9:30, only to wake up 3 times and then get out of bed at 6:30 this morning (on a bank holiday). Em and I are going shopping today so lets see how the day pans out, till later have a wonderful week!

Japanese TV company

There is a Japanese TV company doing a documentary on the Oceanos, if there are any passengers or crew that are interested, please email me at oceanos.survivors(at)gmail.com. They are based in London so you won't have to go all the way to Japan!

SURVIVE THIS : "Sinking of the Oceanos" 2007

At the begining of this year 2007 a reproduction of "Survive this - The sinking of the Oceanos" was broadcast on television, if anyone can provide me with a copy of this on DVD please email me. I have one that was broadcast back in the 90's also called Survive this (I think), but this is a new one.

TV Program

I just go all the details from Vince about the screening of the TV Program, here they are:

The show will be broadcast in prime time on Friday the 6th of april at 9 PM
on the n°1 channel TF1 in France.


Their website is: http://www.tf1.fr/







He will send me a DVD though and I can hopefully get a few clips up onto the web page, else have a few copies made for all my adoring fans (that's a joke).

Vincent and Laurent

Here are two photographs are Laurent (left) and Vincent, Laurent is a Camera Man and Vincent is the guy who interviewed me.

My interview with the French Television

Well to tell you the truth everything just happened so quickly, I received an email from a guy about a week ago or so, saying that he wanted to interview me about my experience on the Oceanos.

After many emails and a chat on the phone he arranged to come over on the 1st of March to do the interview, I didn't really think too much about it as I probably didn't really believe what was happening.

Last emails were exchanged on Wednesday 28th, Thursday morning I was up early making sure I looked good and then the nerves started. The whole morning I was a bunch of nerves, but I knew they would only be coming around 13:30, so went off to lunch with Bob and Damo and we were then going to go out for a coffee as a really needed one, when I saw the tax pull up outside and out stepped to French men (it's amazing how I could just tell they were French), cameras and bags in tow.

Well that was it no coffee, the rest of the afternoon just went so quickly, I spent a lot of time speaking to Vince who is really nice and told me that most times he was more nervous interviewing people. He is just amazing though and has interviewed people like Paul McCartney, Clint Eastwood and so many other big stars, he said he has probably done over a thousand interviews with people.

He was just amazing how calm he made me feel and so at ease, that when I was actually being filmed on camera it still felt like we were just having a chat.

The program they are doing will be aired on the French Television Network M6 probably on the 14th of April. I will also get a copy of the interview on DVD and hopefull be able to put it up on this blog. I just need to get him the photos and newspaper clippings for editing into the program.

Will keep everyone posted.


Endemol.fr – le site de VOD gratuit d’Endemol France

The Oceanos - My story revisited

I created this blog page on the 23rd of July in the hope that survivors and rescuers may contribute towards keeping the blog going. However, so far beside Michael getting in touch with me I have not had much input or feedback to this site, until now.

Vincent from Channel one in France, read my blog and is coming over to Ireland on Thursday the 1st of March in order to do an interview. Vincent has a program in which the tell stories about people who end up in crisis situations, but it all ends up happy. I can only imagine that I will more than likely be dubbed into French and won't get to see it in Ireland but will definitly ask if I can get a copy and maybe even be able to put it up on the blog.