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Published 17:40 23 Aug 2015 BST
When the realisation dawned on him that he was not going to make it to his desired location before nightfall, he turned back towards camp.
"Instead of turning round and swimming back upstream, I decided to take to the bush and cut across to the track. It was nearly dark. I had no shoes. What was I thinking of?" he quite reasonably asks.
After swimming downstream for some time, he got out to scrawl the message in the sand, along with the date.
Despite spending a further night in the wilderness, he was eventually found.
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