Purple Rain

He took my mum out there in 1991/’92 and they were invited to go for a ride on the pursuit boats used to chase down Chinese smugglers. They’d come over from mainland China, pick up a nicked car and run off home with it - note the black Lexus in the boat on the last two photographs. So one of my dad’s mates, who shall remain nameless, was in a helicopter chasing these two smugglers. He chose to shoot a flare into the boat - which set the thing on fire. The boat sank, unfortunately so did the car. A none too impressed boss told him to ring the owner. Apparently that call went like this: “Good news mate, we’ve found your car. Bad news is it’s at the bottom of the South China Sea.”