Downstream

you go straight under. You
could hold on to a tyre, but
not for long. You could get
hold of a grab chain’, a series
of chains looped across the
walls and put up after the
Marchioness disaster, ‘and
hang on the side, but you
won’t last long and you will
be being dragged through the
water.’
The sinking of the
Marchioness was one of the
worst river disasters in