Steve Torpey

And the people were moving substantially up and down, left and right, just rising on these huge waves and then disappearing behind them and then appearing again.

And I could not see through all of the rain.

The searchlight

was also very difficult to use because if I pointed it forward, all I saw was this Star Wars light speed looking thing with all the snow and rain coming at me.

Yeah, like car headlights in a storm too.

Yeah, it just was useless.

So we kind of just got into a hover and started briefing on how we're going to attack this thing.

Sure.

So the survivors are in front of me.

I'm using them as a reference to tell me which end is up.

Like walking into a completely black room and having one little pinpoint of light to give you reference.

That's what it was like.

So I needed to fly past the survivors and go upwind of them, drop the flares.

And then my plan was just to simply back up.

So the crew got ready to deploy the flares.

And as soon as I got over the survivors, they went underneath me.

I lost track of them.

And I looked up and I couldn't see a thing.

I had no idea which end was up.

My stomach just knotted up and I was like, oh, I am over my head right now.