Early '83, Falklands, Chinook moving ISOs from Sir Percival to Orford preparatory to building the AD radar there. I don't know how many we had moved, but the stack of ISOs was reducing (all carefully prepared by the hookers ), until all that was left were those sitting on the forward deck. As we lifted one of these I foolishly drifted slightly 'off' the deck, or I was not fully overhead, at which point the crewman shouted 'the b****y loads leaking' (or words to that effect) as it was suddenly engulfed in water; we pulled away from the deck and turned around to see what was happening. I had dragged the load slightly, but enough to go through the highly pressurised fire fighting ring main which surrounded the deck, and there was now a fountain resembling the one at Chatsworth House issuing from Sir Percival. And that was the end of our day's tasking!
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