Richard Bradley

So I start pulling myself along the line.

I'm hauling on my hose.

By the time I arrive at the standoff of the bell, Marty's got most of my excess hose in.

And I'm back to the bell, and now I'm just like, woof, all right, this is, okay, I've managed to achieve this.

Marty just, because like I said, he's a big fella, he just gets me and just hauls me up on my bailout bottle.

And I just come in and sit down and he's great.

He unhooks my hat, gets it off me.

And then, okay, so we're back in the bell.

The bell locks onto the system and we do a TUP, a transfer under pressure.

And so that essentially involves the pressure in the bell equalizing with the pressure in the system through a trunking that's got a hydraulic clamp on it.

That is often considered the most dangerous time for saturation procedures.

It's when you expose the pressure of the system and the bell to a possible breach through the hydraulic clamp.

Derek Finlay, the diver medic, was there to welcome me and cut my suit off and we got a look at what was there.

I was really surprised when I saw it.

It was about the size of my thumbnail and it was a really, really neat bullet hole, like a puncture.

And because the pressure had been so high,

There was no blood.

It was cauterized.

But it was a serious sort of cavity into my forearm.

And it's like a broken wing.