Being more than 300km offshore, on what was supposed to be a boat trip across to Fiji, things completely turned around when boatie Phil Dent's crewmate fell sick.
Dent had to perform emergency surgery without any prior experience and only the help of a surgeon on the phone to guide him through it.
Phil Dent joined Mike Hosking to explain the situation.
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