- Rob Gough, 24, is part of the crew aboard Scallywag in the Volvo Ocean race
- Gough fell off in the Pacific Ocean during the Melbourne to Hong Kong leg
- Gough admitted he should have been tethered to the boat
An Australian sailor has described the terrifying seven minutes he waited to be rescued after he was flung overboard from a yacht in the Volvo Ocean race.
Rob Gough, 24, is part of the crew aboard Scallywag captained by Sydney sailor David Witt in the around-the-world race.
Gough fell overboard in the Pacific Ocean during the Melbourne to Hong Kong leg of the race.
Gough fell overboard in the Pacific Ocean during the Melbourne to Hong Kong leg of the race

An Australian sailor has described the terrifying seven minutes he waited to be rescued after he was flung overboard from a yacht in the Volvo Ocean race
The incident was captured on camera by a reporter on the yacht.
‘He went out on the outrigger, I was driving, and we went off a big sea and it picked him up threw him off, like a horse,’ said skipper David Witt.
Video of the incident shows the crew desperately searching for Gough, before throwing over a yellow rope to pull him in.
It took the crew seven minutes to rescue Witt, but Gough said it he was just lucky he didn’t fall over at night.
‘He’s safe. But I think it’s shown everyone how hard it is to see the guy in the water. Even on a sunny day, 18 knots of wind… you wouldn’t want to be doing this in 20 knots in the dark,’ Witt said.
Gough admitted he should have been tethered to the boat.
‘I was pretty stupid, but luckily the guys were on to it,’ he said.

Whoops! Gough admitted he should have been tethered to the boat
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