But I needed to keep up what strength I had left, and enough energy for one emergency escape.

In case political temperatures on this tropical island boil over again, the embassy maintains an "emergency escape boat."

There is a service walkway about 1 metre across which doubles as an emergency escape.

After all, the door panels are designed so that anyone can kick them free of their rails for emergency escape in case of fire.

That means scientists can spend only a few hours at a time there, and only then with a helicopter nearby for an emergency escape.

They are hidden in a wadi but are for an emergency escape only.

"Detecting emergency escape hatch open," the computer told him, just in case he had been unaware of his own actions.

A standby, emergency escape, ready on a few days' notice whenever necessary.

The passengers used the emergency escape handles and started walking back to the station.