'And yeah, that's when we figured out we got hit and the ship was sinking.' Everything got tossed around, everything was shaking,' he said.
'It felt like an earthquake, pretty much this huge thump. 'I was in the galley on the grill,' he recalled, when the bulbous bow of the tanker bashed a 28-foot hole in the port side of the McCain, which was east of the Strait of Malacca on the way to a port call in Singapore.