when you walk out on the brow just to move your legs a little , you see , clear as day , the first lieutenant falling down from the port elevator , down past the fueling station and the little boat deck , and past the hangar deck and just missing the pier and into the oily nasty harbor water and when the water falls back from the splash , you yell man overboard and flick off your gun belt and drop it on the brow and then are up and over the brow rail and into the water in your freaking dress blues , and then taking a mouth of the nastiest fucking water ever , spitting it out , and stroking for the spot where the first lieutenants hat floats in the water the water is pretty warm for march , and you look back toward the brow where pensquod is holding your gun belt and waving his arms back into the ship , and then with about 20 of the worst strokes in your life you are there , at the hat , which is sort of sinking in and already dirty and then you look down and there you can see the first lieutenant sort of half floating in the muck , and you up end yourself and dive down , and grab his arm and turn and look up to the surface and you go down deeper and wrap an arm around his chest and start pulling one-armed for the light .