<a name="2-11-10.ION"> page 2-11-10.ION aka Flash Back
IT WAS? maybe a 1/2 hour after the scared silly ? SCARED TO DEATH {see beyoud 9 below}
when a strang feeling came over me & I decided to go forward
1:FROM CIC to the wheel house.. I was plenty superstious by now
2:and befor I even stepped across the hatchway
3:I looked about at the crew members already there
4: They were in a strange trance like state
5: each Staring transfixed & motionless
6: looking forward thru the portholse
7: into the foggy distance.. I quickly averted my gaze
8: NOT WANTING TO BECOME TRANsfixed myself and walked
9: forward past them all to place the end of my noise
very close to the porthole glass.. such that
I could see the end of my own noise the surface of
the port hole glass.. both inside and out
? THEN I SAW IT.. very strang stuff indeed
very tiny droplits of water {FOG} would approach the Glass
saw the water spurt out of the broken plastic pipe
in a stream instead of a spray, it was silly to me
and I was laughing when i turned Saying "YES" and went aft.

?would approach the porthole glass and stop
hovering just above the surface for a moment.. still & unmoving as if looking for a place to land.. and then suddenly SPLATputti Slam into the surface Violently spreading around all over like some bird [bad word deleted] hitting a windshild at 220 mph.. Wierd!