Andy Dinsdale – Catching the Dolphins in his teeth

Simon And did you have the triple shot with the Dolphins in the glass?

Yeah, you’ve got to catch them in your teeth, and mine was in Gibraltar, so I mentioned I joined the Triumph in Australia, and we came back a protracted route, various things on the way, including coming back through the Suez Canal, which was interesting experience, but no, by the time I’d done the operations and we’d been in various places, I’d got through all my sort of walkarounds ‘cos obviously I’d done the System Tracing on Torbay, and then able to do the operational stuff on Triumph, and by the time we came back through to Gibraltar, I’d passed my Board on the way into Gibraltar and I got my Dolphins on the casing in Gibraltar (laughs) which was quite interesting again because we weren’t there for long, literally a whistle stop in Gibraltar, literally a few hours, but on the casing in Gibraltar, a tot of rum, catch the Dolphins in your teeth and then we set sail you know, 4 hours later or whatever it was, fairly shortly afterwards.

I thought, “Flipping hell, I’ve just had a tot of rum” (laughs), “I don’t know if I’m drunk on duty here” (laughs).