Richard Bradley

But then as soon as I got home, you know, I was back in the bush.

The first time I jumped overboard on a pearling boat, the water was black.

The tide was ripping.

Within five minutes, I had a sea snake wrapped around me and I was sucking on the regulator and nearly breathing it down.

I was always that young bloke that said, yeah, I'll go.

And you know, I just found myself running with a posse of people that felt the same way about the same environment.

And you know, after a while you start to amass dead friends.

My risk parameters are greater than others, even within my industry.

I still have a fear of death.

I just don't feel like I'm actually operating at my optimal level unless I'm close to that sense of fear.

Midway through this cleaning job, I'm going left and right, and the vibrations of this gun, because it is so powerful, unbeknownst to me at the time, but the way that the shroud had been put on and the design of the shroud, there were three grub screws holding it on, and one of the grub screws had come loose.

The shroud came away and I took the full blast off from the nozzle at point blank into my forearm.

I told topside to make it cold, which is essentially to turn the gun off, and I was coming back to the bell.

I knew that I had my umbilical there and it's the umbilical that's down which your gas and your hot water and your expired gas and your communications and it's very strong and I knew that I had that to haul myself along so I just started hauling with my one good arm and I just started hauling myself back.

Marty's in the bell.

He's overheard it on the comms as well.

He knows something's not right.

And he's a big Tahitian boy and he's just hauling up on hoes and racking it.

The Golden Gate is a device that we have when we are working shallow in saturation so that our umbilicals don't end up back in the thrusters.

We go through a Golden Gate to extend our range.