Stephanie Browitt

What was the journey out to White Island like?

What safety equipment were you given?

So then you all piled into a rubber zodiac and inflatable raft.

And what did the island look like as you approached it?

So what instructions were you given by your guides once you got onto the island itself?

And at this point, were you looking at your dad and your sister going, what's going on here at this point?

And when one of the guides mentioned that the eruption warning had been lifted to level two, with level three being an eruption, what did you all think then?

So then you approached the crater lake.

What did you see as you approached this huge lake in the crater of the volcano?

So you and your dad and your sister were walking away to get back to the boat to leave the island.

What do you remember of those minutes that followed?

And were you more kind of fascinated than frightened at this point?

And then what happened?

And what could you hear behind you?

You know, I think we've seen this kind of scene more than a few times in Hollywood movies.

Is it anything like that, or what is the reality of running away from

from a massive volcano as it's erupting and starting to eject this massive amount of gas and steam and rock and ash into the air?

Volcanoes in these moments eject what they call shrapnel, little bits of rock.

Were you seeing that starting to spatter around you as this huge rumbling sound was coming up behind you?

And what happened when the seismic blast wave of the eruption hit your body?