the manner of my death. tonnes and tonnes of weight force ammunition, everything, they re going off and you hear boom, bang, smack, wallop, going every couple of seconds. we went in there and. . . my bottle went. i couldn t. i went in there, i couldn t breathe. i could not breathe. i d do everything i could but you couldn t see that you couldn t see your hand in front of you. the smoke and the smell. a friend of mine, mike, and myself, we cut free an empty life raft. by upturning it, it acted as a buffer between the platform and the ship. so we had a big area down there. some of the guys were climbing some of the guys, their hands were that badly burned, curly s saying, look, you know, jump . somebody appeared from the upper level, badly injured. he had a field dressing on and he was burned. there was blood. he just appeared on there, climbed over the railing and jumped.
my parents won t know the manner of my death. tonnes and tonnes of weight force ammunition, everything, they re going off and you hear boom, bang, smack, wallop, going every couple of seconds. we went in there and. . . my bottle went. i couldn t. i went in there, i couldn t breathe. i could not breathe. i d do everything i could, but you couldn t see that you couldn t see your hand in front of you. the smoke and the smell. a friend of mine, mike, and myself, we cut free an empty life raft. by upturning it, it acted as a buffer between the platform and the ship. so we had a big area down there. some of the guys were climbing some of the guys, their hands were that badly burned, curly s saying, look, you know, jump . somebody appeared from the upper level, badly injured. he had a field dressing on and he was burned.
ammunition, everything, they re going off and you hear boom, bang, smack, wallop, going every couple of seconds. we went in there and. ..my bottle went. i couldn t. i went in there, i couldn t breathe. i could not breathe. i d do everything i could but you couldn t see that you couldn t see your hand in front of you. the smoke and the smell. a friend of mine, mike, and myself, we cut free an empty life raft. by upturning it, it acted as a buffer between the platform and the ship. so we had a big area down there. some of the guys were climbing some of the guys, their hands were that badly burned, curly s saying, look, you know, jump . somebody appeared from the upper level, badly injured. he had a field dressing on and he was burned. there was blood. he just appeared on there, climbed over the railing and jumped. he had his bloody webbing on, so it was full of ammunition and god knows what.