He had been part of the Koh Lanta show for four seasons, assisting candidates who must survive on an uninhabitedisland and complete a series of challenges.
As his boat drifts through a hidden lagoon on the uninhabitedisland of Ko Hong, he cocks his head to listen to a family of macaques chattering among the mangroves.
When eventually the floes began to break up in April 1916, Shackleton loaded his men into three small lifeboats and struck out for Elephant Island, an uninhabited speck of land some 100 miles distant.
On the seventh day of the race, Buser was first out of the checkpoint at Eagle Island, where a single cabin is the only dwelling in the otherwise uninhabited stretch of trail.
Boat trips are offered to many of the bay's caves and uninhabited islands, but among the most popular of the bay's 42 islands is James Bond Island, so named because it was prominently featured in two Bond films.