Abandoned

The physical aspects were extreme. We were in water — sometimes we had to lie in it for hours, other times completely submerged in it. We were on an upturned boat in relatively high seas for weeks, 10 hours a day.

– Actor Greg Johnson on the making of Abandoned, Stuff website, 23 August 2015

We’re gonna die!

– Phil (Greg Johnson) starts to doubt the chances of survival, a couple of hours after capsize

The only way forward was to adapt and learn to survive.

– John (Peter Feeney), the skipper of the Rose-Noëlle

The rogue wave came out of nowhere. With no warning, a 40-foot wall of solid water hit us like a freight train, and was gone before we knew it.

– John (Peter Feeney), the skipper of the Rose-Noëlle

...we spent two, three weeks out at sea and the problem with that was, we did the exterior, so we're sitting on top of the boat spending 12 to 14 hours out at sea with nowhere to go, so we were more or less stuck there all day long and the monotony and the mental fatigue of that was just really hard to deal with.

– Actor Dominic Purcell on filming at sea, Stuff website, 23 August 2015