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Bringing back memories, indeed!

I had a SAR mission that made me stay awake for 72 hours!
Our ship was on SAR reserve, I was on duty the day we got the call to assist a sinking cargo ship (the SAR ship was sent to the area to rescue the survivors), so... I spent all the night calling the crew that were on leave aboard (before cell phones!), at 0730 we set sail with the ones aboard (two thirds of the crew), got a lot of "crappy weather" (to say the least), went to the disaster area, picked up some corpses (we were able to pick three crew members), sail back to Lisbon and went to the area again and finally, the next day return to base - when I got home I sleep 36 hours in a row (with the occasional bath room raid).

Living the dream, Sir!

Thanks Jim


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