Mark Smith

Nautical Productions Pty Ltd

RRP: $34.95 PB 235pp

Imagine leaving Hong Kong harbour, bound for Australia, in a smart 20 metre motor yacht, when 200 kilometres out of port the vessel suffers and unforeseeable and catastrophic hull failure and sinks in seconds.
Imagine a huge tropical storm and having just one minute to launch your lifeboat as your yacht sinks beneath you. No sooner are you on the water when a massive wave tips the raft upside down and you lose all your equipment including food and water!
Imagine spending the next 11 days and nights with nothing to eat or drinks and every night having your raft turned upside down ir filled with water as you’re hit by huge tropical waves!

With only a minute to abandon ship, Australian sailor Mark Smith and New Zealander Steve Freeman clambered into a life raft and watched as their vessel sunk to the ocean floor. The two men were to cling to life, their starved bodies forced to summon energy from nothing, their desolate minds becoming a taunting dungeon of ill thoughts.

Despite relentless misfortune and diminishing odds, the two men are able to defy their bodies and control their minds with nothing left but the will to live.

Beyond All Limits uncovers the hidden strength of the human body and soul to withstand unending torture and deprivation.

(Alan Davidson Publicity)