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I kicked my feet and tried to propel myself away from what I guessed would be the next circle of the boat. As I did so I looked up to see the boat moving away into the distance engine roaring but all the time starting to wheel round towards my direction. In my full wet suit, no matter how hard I kicked my legs I just didn’t seem to move with any speed through the water. I looked up again and was horrified to see the bow of my own boat bearing right down onto me.

In a slightly surreal moment I was fixed on the big square orange section of tubing at the front of the boat, never having seen the boat in this way. But it wasn’t the bow I was worried about – it was the stern and thrashing propeller that could do me an awful lot of harm.

The bow came at me - closer and closer - and as it did, it turned slightly to my left-hand side. I flung my arms up, crossed in front of my face, hands well out of the water before the port side tube whacked me. I was swept down the port side of the tube - luckily the boat didn’t ride up over me.