 Although they had lit signal fires each time a ship passed, four failed to sight the boys.On September 11, 1966 the Australian fishing boat "Just David", captained by Peter Warner (son of Sir Arthur Warner), approached Ata after Warner noticed unusual patches of burned grass on the island's cliffsides.Warner, at the time still helping to run the family business, Electronics Industries, also had been moonlighting as a fisherman with a small fleet of boats based in Tasmania.