Fisherman who was lost off the South Australian coast for five days after his fishing trip went horribly wrong sips on a bourbon and coke as he is 再会させるd with his family and 明らかにする／漏らすs how he 生き残るd 'big waves' and '背信の waters'

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One of the fishermen who went 行方不明の off the South Australian coast almost a week ago has arrived 支援する on 乾燥した，日照りの land sipping on a bourbon and coke.

Derek Robinson, 48, was 迎える／歓迎するd by emotional family and friends - 含むing his grandson ハリケーン - on Thursday afternoon.

He and his mate Tony Higgins, 57, had made 接触する with 当局 just hours earlier after hope was all but lost for their 生き残り.

They 消えるd one day into a trip to Goolwa, from 棺 Bay 近づく Port Lincoln, on Thursday, September 3.

After far reaching 空気／公表する and water searches 産する／生じるd no results, 当局 called off the search on Wednesday evening, 恐れるing the worst.

Derek Robinson embraces a family member while 持つ／拘留するing a bourbon and coke after going 行方不明の off the South Austral ian coast five days ago? (left 手渡す)

Two deadpan police officers 運動 Mr Robinson to shore as the elated fisherman threw threw his 手渡すs in the 空気／公表する

Mr Robinson looked thrilled to be home and on 乾燥した，日照りの land again after a fishing trip with his friend went horribly wrong

On Thursday, 救助（する） 乗組員s met the men?近づく Salt Creek on the Coorong and 設立する them both in good health and spirits.

Mr Robinson was moved on to a 救助（する） boat and 素早い行動d to safety while Mr Higgins stayed behind with his boat, which had become waterlogged.

Arriving 支援する on 乾燥した，日照りの land on Mr Robinson looked thrilled to be home.

Two deadpan police officers drove Mr Robinson to shore as the elated fisherman threw threw his 手渡すs in the 空気／公表する?

When he took his first steps on land, he quickly embraced family who had come to 迎える／歓迎する him, gripping an open can of?Wild Turkey in one 手渡す.

In one moving photograph Mr Robinson can be seen cuddling his grandson, ハリケーン, who was thrilled to see his granddad again.?

In one moving photograph Mr Robinson can be seen cuddling his grandson, ハリケーン, who was thrilled to see his granddad again?

Derek Robinson, 48, was 迎える／歓迎するd by emotional family and friends - 含むing his grandson ハリケーン - on Thursday afternoon

Mr Robinson told SBS he was feeling 'very emotional' when he got 支援する on land.?

'I knew I'd see my boys again but I just didn't know when. I'm glad to be 支援する and I'm on 安定した ground - but it just feels like my 脚s are wobbling all over the place,' he said as a beer was 手渡すd to him.

He told reporters that he felt he needed to take the voyage for 'personal 推論する／理由s', and he needed 'to get away'.???

While he never やむを得ず 恐れるd for his life while lost at sea, Mr Robinson 認める there were definitely 'scary moments', 'like when you see big waves coming at you'.

However he said they were 'good fun' and 'all pa rt of the adventure.'

'It was rough, it was rocky...?I don't think I felt 脅すd - just 孤立するd. It felt like the world didn't 存在する, because we were out in the middle of nowhere,' he said.?

'There was no signal, no service. You'd think they'd have service out there - 科学（工学）技術 and all. My phone was b******d the whole way through.'

Mr Robinson embraces friends and family on Thursday after 存在 救助（する）d from his broken fishing boa t??

Mr Robinson's brother Ian told The Advertiser he was 'happy as a pig in sh*t' with the 結果.?

'I've never been happier, my brother is alive,' he said.

'I am happy as a pig in sh*t. I was losing the 陰謀（を企てる） for the last couple of days. (But) I was not giving up until there was a 団体／死体, 破片, or a boat.

'The 苦悩 and 苦痛 you go through, I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. It's been emotional.'?

Mr Robinson and Mr Higgins were just a day into their trip when they experienced engine trouble on Friday last week.?

The pair managed to 接触する a friend to 知らせる them their 計画（する）s had changed and they would be コースを変えるing to nearby Kangaroo Island.

But they had not been heard from since.?

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Derek Robinson (left) and Tony Higgins (権利) 消えるd during a trip to Goolwa, from 棺 Bay 近づく Port Lincoln on Thursday, September 3

The men were 長，率いるd to Goolwa, from 棺 Bay 近づく Port Lincoln, they told a friend they would try make it to Kangaroo Island after their engine failed but ended up in Salt Creek

Mr Robinson moved on to a 救助（する） boat and was 素早い行動d to safety while Mr Higgins stayed behind with his own boat, which had become waterlogged

A 大規模な search 操作／手術 was 開始する，打ち上げるd, 伴う／関わるing police, the Australian 海上の Safety 当局 and members of the 王室の Australian 空気／公表する 軍隊.?

乗組員s spent days searching an area larger than Tasmania covered in an at tempt to find the men.

恐れるs were raised when the men were still not 位置を示すd after several 天候 警告s and days of 背信の 条件s.?

On Wednesday night the 空中の search was called off after 救助（する） teams failed to find any 調印する of the men.

'After searching around 104,000 square kilometres, Australian and 海上の Safety 当局 advised us last night that they would be 一時停止するing any その上の sea search,' Superintendent Bahr said on Wednesday night.

Derek Robinson, 48, was 迎える／歓迎するd by emotional family and friends - 含むing his grandson ハリケーン - on Thursday afternoon

Mr Robinson moved on to a 救助（する） boat and was 素早い行動d to safety while Mr Higgins stayed behind with his own boat, which had become waterlogged

'They have checked every part of the area with no 調印する of the 大型船. The 決定／判定勝ち（する） has been made, that if nothing comes from tonight we will also 一時停止するd any その上の search activities.'

However, hours later a call （機の）カム through 知らせるing the 救助（する） team the men had managed to raise the alarm.?

They had somehow managed to 接触する their families and 勝利者 Harbour police 駅／配置する to tell them they were still alive.

The men were in a newly 購入（する）d 10-metre 木造の-船体d boat, which they were planning on 直す／買収する，八百長をするing up.

Alexandrina 市長 Keith Parkes, who is a former commodore of the Goolwa Regatta ヨット Club, said the pair were lucky to be alive.

He told the ABC they were in '背信の waters'.

'We just can't believe how lucky they are to have been 設立する.'

Mr Robinson managed to 警報 乗組員s that he was still alive just hours after they called off a search