High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom McClean is a veteran of both the Parachute Regiment and the SAS and is a survival expert who lived on the island of Rockall from 26 May to 4 July 1985 to affirm Britain`s claim to the island. Tom started life as an orphan having been abandoned as a baby. He spent much of his teenage years working on a farm until he was bored of life he enlisted in the British Army. After Blyth Ridgeway sailed the Atlantic Tom announced to both that he was going to complete this alone.