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Up to my hands and knees, and another -- the second explosion hit us, and this one i have no idea which direction it came from. to me it was just completely all around me, and that threw me back down on the floor again, and -- now at this point i'm scared, scared to death. i figured this is my time. i'm going to die. >> explosions were that big? >> yes, they were that big. >> and when the first explosion hit what, did you see? what did you feel? >> oh, man, it was awful. i turned around, and so did caleb and we started to look up at the derrick and the derrick was just on fine and then all the...

Didn't like to go out fishing but went anywhere. donald clark was the assistant driller, father of four, remembered as soft spoken with an excellent work ethic. stephen curtis was an assistant driller, craze bet outdoors and war a kamoed tuxedo vest. gordon jones was a fluid specialist and mud engineer, a rabid lsu fan. his second son maxwell was born after the rig exploded. he obviously never got to see him. wyatt kemp loved hunting and fishing and remembered for his sense of humor and love of his family. karl kleppinger jr. served in operation desert storm, loved nascar and professional wres...

>> and each life boat fit about 75 people? >> yeah. people were just running and jumping in them and, you know, it's dark. you know, people are screaming and yelling, and, you know, we just got on the life boat, and, i mean, it was even worse. that was probably the worst part of it being on the life boat. >> why? >> because it was -- it's almost like you're waiting to die and there's people screaming, you know, put it in the water, let's go, and it's filling up with smoke and can you feel the heat from the fire. in fact, one of the guys that was on the life boat, he actually, he panic the so m...

Rig burn. you know, you look at it one way. you could sit there and watch it burn, and finally i was like, you know, i can't watch that so i turned around and sat down and turned away from it and i looked up and there's giant windows on the giant wheelhouse of the boat and you can see the reflection in it right there so there's like no getting away from it. try to close your eyes and every time you close your eyes. you could see everything just replaying. yeah. that's one image i'll never forget the rest of my life from when i was on the boat watching it burn. >> next, an unknown fate. the wiv...

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