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10th May 2010, 06:26 PM
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Accidents at sea
Hi to you all,
Reading a lot of threads i see sum of you have left the sea be for your time ie medical or in my case a accident that was not my fault,i dont know if this is the right place to put this thread or if it can go on the site
but hear gos.
it was a tipical friday arfternoon and B O T sports we had dun life boat drilland went to fire drill on the four deck by the way it was a 380,000ton s tanker.As all ways we wear not alod to use the monitors so it wasout with the houses things wear going as thay chod when one of the house parted sum thing i had never sean be for and you know hoe thay can wip soit wasshut down and we ataredall over agin.
The CO said to me show the kids how to hold a house the right way so i did then wen i went from jet tospray that was the last thing i can rember.
I was told sum time arfter that the cuopling came away wity me still hoiding it .
I was flow home and spent a few years in and out of hospitls and in the end i was told i would not be going
back to sea as i had epilepsy, that was 28 years ago i got nothing for it and the safety officer that signed the safety certificate to say all the fier gear was ok got nouthing.
I would love to go back to.
I do have a bonus that from my bedroom on a go day i can see across the channel and spend a lot of time watching ships going up and down Wear thay go i do not no.
Phil balfe
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