Haha to be honest Shinek, it was a case of laughing about it at the time. Dark humoured motley crew! There were quite a few of us who knew each other really well, so there was lots of sarcasm and jokes whilst we were getting on with it. We knew the plan - get off the boat but just decided not to panic and make the best of it (a few others did just launch themselves in to the water!). I think you go into fight or flight initially and then think about the full consequences later when you out of the situation...
The dhow we caught the attention of came (s.l.o.w.l.y) over. Our crew managed to stop the engine from exploding, contained the fire and stayed aboard whilst the other dhow towed it back to port over the course of 5 hours!!! Did I mention how sorry I felt for the tourists on the other vessel?! We left our dive gear onboard and felt lucky when we saw it being driven past the bar we were in during the early hours.
Won't be using that operator again!!