Think your Friday’s bad? It could be worse – it took our team 25 hours to get from Glasgow to Shetland and when they set off to film, their boat broke down and they were rescued by the coastguard.
We’ll let cameraman Dai Baker tell the story via his Twitter feed – he was on board alongside Political Editor Gary Gibbon and Producer Robert Hamilton.
Interesting morning, fly up to Shetland, circle the island a couple of times and then fly south, too foggy to land, I’m now in Inverness.
— dai baker (@daibaker) April 23, 2014
Mad taxi dash across Scotland and made it on to the ferry to Shetland from Aberdeen with 5 mins to spare. pic.twitter.com/GljITHawg0
— dai baker (@daibaker) April 23, 2014
25 hours after leaving Glasgow and we’ve made it to Shetland http://t.co/u8SDWaLoNr
— dai baker (@daibaker) April 24, 2014
Another interesting morning on Shetland. In a small boat 3 miles off shore and the engines stopped. Coast guard on way.
— dai baker (@daibaker) April 25, 2014
That’s the boat in the distance we were supposed to be filming. pic.twitter.com/DCed57WnZO
— dai baker (@daibaker) April 25, 2014
Rescued by some nice Norwegians from the tall ship were supposed to be filming pic.twitter.com/TJKSec5nuf
— dai baker (@daibaker) April 25, 2014
And this is our original boat being towed back to shore by the lifeboat. pic.twitter.com/ahWl5AjXKh
— dai baker (@daibaker) April 25, 2014
Made it on Shetland radios 1pm news, second story, life boat launched to rescue 4 adrift south of Lerwick.
— dai baker (@daibaker) April 25, 2014