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Don Cleavin – Refuelling

Don Cleavin – Navigating the Great Barrier Reef | Don Cleavin – The brotherhood
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I didn’t go ashore; I was too busy refuelling.

We were refuelling from a road tanker. We had 400 tonnes of diesel. A road tanker doesn’t hold anything like that.

I think you had to fill up about 10 – 15 road tankers to give us enough to get going again.

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Don Cleavin

Portrait of Don Cleavin by Julian Winslow for Submariners' Stories Oral History project
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