He was employed as a roustabout on an eight-man crew.
The nets had been repaired and were ready, and so was his eight-man crew.
The complications began last fall, with the choosing of an eight-man crew.
But thanks to an eight-man crew that had to stop and set heavy equipment on tripods, action eluded capture.
He said he'd come back hi the morning with an eight-man crew.
Princeton, last year's national intercollegiate champion, had five new oarsmen in the eight-man crew that won its third race of the season.
To this date the remains of four of the eight-man crew have been found and positively identified.
He was the only member of the eight-man crew of the fire engine "Patricia" to survive.
In addition to its eight-man crew, it was carrying 36 passengers, including two civilians: a woman and her infant son.
There were no survivors from the plane's eight-man crew.