Sarah Kanowski

We hear through our radios that we've gained entry into the ship.

Someone's got in from the other side of the ship.

So we have to quickly change tack and we have to check our weapons are still there and we...

we run into the ship and then we're running through the ship and there's smugglers everywhere and there's more booby traps and it's dark and it's full on.

And then we get into the... I run to the bridge because I'm trained to a certain extent by then as an officer so I can take control and understand what's happening on the bridge and I take control of that ship.

We don't have control.

There's an alternate steering room where someone else has control.

But we're getting closer to oil rigs.

If we hit them, we're going to die.

And then finally kind of...

We're lucky enough to take control and then we have FAL 12.

It's the biggest ship in the history of those sanctions and the most dangerous mission we did, for sure.

There was Southern Asian crew members who just had a job.

They didn't know what they were a part of.

But then the Iraqi crew, in my mind, they were terrorists.

They might be al-Qaeda.

They were smugglers.

They were the bad guys.

Yeah, they tried to kill us.

And they then said, we need to do prayers.