"<!-- Back in 1983, off the California coast there was a storm, about 25 to 30-foot seas, and so we started heading in. And all of a sudden, we fell off a 30-footer... and we just slid right off. And I looked up and there was the next one, and it came right down on top of us. I was in the bow, it catapulted me into the sea, and I was just tumbled and tossed like a rag doll."