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"The water is what saved us," the pilot, Brian Depauw told the court."I heard my customer saying should we run now?" Depauw said in a statement that was recorded just three days following the eruption. "I looked behind me and saw the plume going up 1,000 or 2,000 feet high, I saw boulders and debris arcing toward us, so I said: 'Run, run, run to the water. Follow me.
"The minute I hit the water, it went black," he added. "The ash came and obviously hit us and I couldn't see anything." Dewaul recalls trying to stay underwater while holding his breath until he "saw some light through the ash."The trial is the result of tour operators being accused of failing to ensure the safety of their customers, as the
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