Aldred said the Chief Health Officer made the directive on April 2 and the group was at sea so they did not know about it. We spent three weeks out there. We came in, got some groceries and went back out, Aldred said. We did not have any way of knowing about this. We have emergency radio, but we have no communications, there are no iPhones or anything out there. The 69-year-old Dingo Beach man said he owned two tourist boats worth $500,000 each but they had not been used for work since March last year because of COVID-19. Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young issued a home confinement health directive in April last year. Picture: Matt Taylor