[5] Unlike Thiele's previous well known radio plays Burke and Wills and The Edge of Ice it was written in prose not verse.
[6] According to ABC Weekly "Alex Hastings has given up the shark-fishing life because his young wife, Doris, who is about to have a baby, fears the sea.
But when the news comes of the presence of schools of edible shark, Alec is drawn back to the family boat.
The inevitable hurricane arises, and the fleet of tiny craft is thrown in chaos.
Every movement, every danger, is followed by those on shore by means of two-way coast radio patrol run by Tom Green.