Ian Moore – One experience of claustrophobia

I’d been onboard for a number of years and I’d been in small, tiny spaces and crawling between pipes and various other things and we were on the surface and I had to go down into one of the air spaces which is on the outboard side of one of the engines.

It’s a tiny little hatch cover where literally you’ve got to squeeze yourself down into this tiny little space, and I dropped down into it, and suddenly everything just sort of closed in on me.

I felt really, really odd and really weird, but it was only for 10 or 15 seconds or so, but I really felt as though everything was closing in.

Things were starting to push in on top of me.

Once it was over it just … it was a shake of the head and just get on with it, what’s the matter with you? And I did what I needed to do, get down there and then out.