“Just not knowing if anyone else was out there, if anyone else had been picked up already or anything like that was a bit daunting.”
Teagle, meanwhile, told the show that being discovered after 36 hours missing was “the most emotional moment in my life”.
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“Unfortunately, the first time the boat picked us up, we thought Elliot was on board. When we realised, he wasn’t there, that was the most heartbreaking thing that’s ever happened,” he said. “Luckily we were reunited about an hour later.”
Foote, whose father Peter had paid for the friends’ surf trip to mark his upcoming 30th birthday, said his thoughts were with “our joyful young guide who hasn’t been found”.
“I wish there was more we could have done to help you, and that will stay with me as a burden to bear,” he said in a post on Instagram on Thursday.
“I understand the loneliness you must have felt in those hours by yourself, and my condolences to your family.”
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