've had many major disasters ... I mean the Queen Mary ... if
she hadn't been in dry dock she would've sunk. We were flooding up
... coming out of dry dock, you flood up so far in the dock until
the water's sufficiently high to cover one of the main inlets and
then you are supposed to start up the generators on the ship
supplying all the lighting and then you carry on flooding up 'til
the ship floats, but there was a mishap somehow and one of the
valves got missed and the water came pouring in and it got up
within about 5 inches of the bottom of the armature of one of these
big generators. I mean if they hadn't of stopped at that time the
water would've got in and there would've been one almighty flash
and a bang and (laughs) yeah.
