but then you break through the surface and gasp in deep , and pull the first lieutenant up , and he splashes around and breaths in deep , and you feel something soft hit the back of your head and you reach around and its a life ring and you grab it , and then sort of slump the first lieutenant over on to it and he grabs on , and then the guys on the brow sort of work themselves down the ladder to the pier , and then down on to one of those big floating deals that keep the ship from smashing into the pier , youll think of the word later , camels , theyre called camels and thats the word that keeps running through your head as you sidestroke along behind the first lieutenant to the camel where the guys pull you out of the water and you lie there on a pile of greasy rope and look up at the sky its blue-white-red and theres a few sort of hazy clouds and breath and breath and breath .