Scott

There's two more important things to note before I actually say what happened.

The first thing is that there's a lot of other things that drain to these tanks than just the toilets.

So there's the showers, the sinks, the galley, which is our kitchen.

Anything in there drains down to these tanks.

And then the last thing is there's an emergency announcement circuit.

The biggest thing is if you saw like a fire, you could call it away.

And this announcing circuit cuts everything else out on the boat.

So no one can talk on the phone if this announcing circuit is on.

It goes to all the controlling stations so you could get people moving in the right direction, set off the alarm, wake people up, things like that.

So there's a day on deployment where we needed to blow the sand tanks overboard.

We'd done it many times.

We do it every couple of days.

And the person lining up the system to do it is kind of going through their process.

They hang these big red signs on each of the toilets to say, like, we're blowing the sand tanks.

Don't use the toilet right now.

I'm sitting in the wardrobe.

I'm just doing some work on my computer.

And all of a sudden, I hear on the emergency announcing circuit, someone just very frantically say, stop blowing the sand tank.

Immediately, something has gone wrong.

Oh, Jesus.