"gonefishiing" wrote in message ...
what were you aboard when you went over?
sounds like a crazy event
gf.


A 220 foot supply vessel the Point Barrow.
Working off Port Mansfield TX. We were backing up to a drilling rig
with side seas. A wave came over deck and took me over the side. It
was in a real cold time of the year. I had on a Navy P coat,T shirt,
flannel **** and foul weather suit and shorts. All the air trapped in
my clothes kept me bouyant.
Luckly the Capt saw me go over and took the engines out of gear. I
clawed myself back to the side and grabbed the deck. My lungs were
full of water so I could not yell. The boat was rocking so much it
would yank me out of the water about 12 ffet then dunk me again. That
went on a few time until the others on deck saw me hanging there. The
pulled me up on deck and we finished tying up to the rig. As soon as I
started walking back to the cabin both the 4" samson braid hausers off
the stern going to the rig broke. On the way back to the dock in the
jetties of Port Mansfield the waves were so bad that we slammed bottom
on a sandbar. When we got back to the dock I quit. Did not go back
offshore in the oilfield until I had my 100 ton ocean operators
ticket. I'd had enough of working on deck.

Joe




"Joe" wrote in message
om...
"Bart Senior"

Anyone else have any good falling in stories?


I fell of a 50 ft utility boat once while it was underway, nothing
hurt and the water was warm.

A bad falling over story, before I meet my wife she worked on shrimp
boats.
Two boats were tied together about 100 miles offshore. One of the crew
members fell between the boats and had his leg squished off. USCG flew
him in and he lived...

I got washed over once in the gulf. 11 ft seas. First thing I knew I
was slamming into the strut just in front of a 72" propellor. My life
flashed before my eyes!


Joe