But let's go back to the beginning and how this all started. It was back on 2 September last year, when the live export ship the Gulf Livestock 1, which had just left Napier on 14 August, was traveling north-west in the East China Sea when it was capsized in strong winds and heavy seas, whipped up by not one but two typhoons. So this was an extraordinary weather event that this ship was caught in and it was only less than two days from its destination. Now, the ship was carrying almost 6,000 head of cattle and 43 crew. That included 39 Filipinos, two Australians, and two New Zealanders. Only two survivors and a body were ever found by the Japanese coast guard, and, sadly, only one of the survivors actually lived. 