Don Cleavin – Explosion on board (3)

But you daren’t touch anything (laughs). You had to get across this gap into the other side there, then we were out into the Control Room, you see.

And the Captain was stood there, and I said to him, “Did we turn over in the water?”

He said, “Go and get some fresh air.”

We had to go to the lower fin to get some fresh air. I was up there for quite a long time actually and that was probably where I went wrong.

I should have come back down again but I was shaken up quite badly.

I believe that I’d been unconscious for about 25 minutes before I came round to find where I was.