As 18-year-old Shirui Zheng floated on a paddleboard in the middle of Port Phillip Bay on Monday night, she was thinking only of her mother, who she had fought with the day before.
“I just wanted to go home and apologise to her,” she said. “I was scared that she would be mad at me but she wasn’t, so that’s a relief.”
Zheng returned to University Hospital Geelong about 2pm on Wednesday, bringing doughnuts to her boyfriend Rong Shi, the only one of the four yet to be discharged. Zheng said she had “never been that cold before” and the journey had been “pretty scary”, but there were also stars in the sky and “shining little fish in the sea”.She said the thought of dying briefly crossed her mind, but she knew “we needed to think of a solution, not how we’re going to die”.
Speaking outside University Hospital Geelong, relieved dad Jack Shi described how the four rookie paddleboarders kept their vessels together as they were pushed in the direction of Swan Island, near Queenscliff. They floated through the night and landed more than 20 kilometres away on Swan Island, a military training site off the coast of Queenscliff on the Bellarine Peninsula.Shi said his son, who is also known as Jackson, was treated for dehydration and that he and his friends were doing well.
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