BBC R4 news reporting that it's possible that the footballer and one other person might have climbed into a life-raft.
That's surely based on the Ferry Pilot clip where it's explained that on trans-Atlantic crossings there is a life-raft in the back to buy him up to 8hrs although he adds that he wears a neoprene immersion suit. But they wouldn't have been wearing neoprene on this occasion (would they?) so unless based on rescue services knowledge, the lift-raft possibility would be way off the mark, no?