MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL—200 KILOMETERS NORTHEAST OF MAYOTTE ISLAND
The explosion showered Capt. Mansur Darusman with thousands of tempered glass shards as the windscreens on the bridge of the Tasmanian Cruise Ship CS Platypus burst inward. Darusman slammed to the deck bleeding from dozens of cuts on face and hands, the front of his captain’s uniform shredded. As he painfully raised himself to one knee, his undamaged eyes, shielded by cracked but still intact glasses, sought the source of the explosion. In good weather, he kept the weathertight doors to the flying bridges latched but not sealed. The explosion had blown both open. He got to his feet and turned to his right.
A dark-skinned man wearing a white turban-like headcloth, blue tee-shirt and khaki trousers, shod in ragged sneakers, and
