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My main role is defending the airbase.

CROWD JEERS

We're on the outside of the wire,

we're gonna be the ones who get hit first.

Petrol, petrol, petrol!

But I think I'd rather I catch a bullet than someone else.

Man down, man down, man down!

CROWD SHOUTS

Hectic as fuck!

My job is to possibly not come home.

The RAF is on high alert.

The world, at the moment, is not in the best of places.

The Russian vessel running along at ten knots.

Everything that's happening

with Russia and Ukraine, it's like a tinder box.

You're doing an important role protecting from Vlady the baddy.

Direct hit.

ALARM BLARES

Ha-ha! Let's go, boys!

See ya!

With conflict in Europe

and the Middle East...

Maintain eyes on that person.

..British warplanes are poised to face any threat.

Russian markings. Bogey continues to track north.

We are one trigger press away from starting World War III.

Follow me.

Speed low. Recover.

Only when you've sat in your own pee

for about two hours over Mosul have you really made it.

It's what you don't see on Top Gun.

That channel can be fired on - get out.

Magazine, drop off. Yeah?

200 miles north of Edinburgh,

RAF Lossiemouth's firing range

is one of the UK's most secure locations.

Get out the channel!

It's proving ground for 51 Squadron RAF Regiment,

an arm of the Royal Air Force

specialising in ground combat.

I'm 20 years old.

I'm living most little boys' dreams,

you know - I'm walking around with a...with a rifle.

Stay low,

just cos we're off the hill doesn't mean we're safe.

Nobody's up here, no? No. Right happy days.

Two, three months ago I was working in a hotel, cleaning rooms

and doing a day-to-day job,

and, then, I'm now in uniform.

Formally a reservist,

Ben is the newest member of the squadron.

I am a regiment gunner.

We are very much the infantry of the airforce.

Our job is to defend against an enemy force.

Pull! Yeah. Pull back.

Remember, no-one's covering our arses now

so when we got through that channel stay fucking low

and be quick through it.

GUNSHOTS Man down, man down, man down!

Man down! Stay low!

Get low! Get down.

Now serving as a regular,

Ben is facing his first overseas deployment to Cyprus.

RAF Akrotiri is fewer than 300 miles

from Russian military bases in Syria.

But before they can depart, they must pass one final test.

Which way do these go again? They go like that.

If there's riots or there's something going on

in and/or round the base, we need to be able to go

and disperse that area and to stop people.

Just keep doing it

until he gets tired of getting filled in. There we go.

The only thing to stop them from hurting you is

a shield that you're holding.

It is going to turn into a massive fucking fight.

I'm nervous about it, I won't lie.

Whilst some assume the role of rioters,

Ben and the rest of the squadron must hold off their attacks.

Show of hands, then, who has done a petrol bomb before?

Just a couple.

Chris, let's start this with a bit of unrest.

Let's start a bit of unrest, being vocal, noisy.

INDISTINCT SHOUTS FROM RIOTERS

Field Team Two, prepare to advance five metres.

Move.

Petrol, petrol, petrol!

You know it's going to hurt, you know it's coming for you,

and you've just got to brace yourself.

And, then, after the first few hits, your adrenaline kicks in.

RIOTERS JEER

I think we've got a popped shoulder.

I think he's popped his shoulder and he's split his eye open.

When someone gets injured during a drill,

you sometimes worry that you went a bit too far.

But it does remind us of how the riots can happen in real life.

I'd prefer to keep it.

Right, it's going to hurt, then.

With two gunners injured, the drill is halted.

It got a bit disjointed at times,

a bit chaotic, however, before we set off,

we briefed that in chaos it's fine,

that's fine, it's going to happen. The biggest take away

for me from this is messages have to be repeated.

It's exactly what I expected - hectic as fuck.

I lost vision at one point because I got too sweaty and humid

and, then, the smoke came in.

FLIGHT CONTROLLER: Spartan 1-2

flight Lossie Tower joint. Runway 2-3.

CONTROLLER CONTINUES MESSAGE

Home to more than 50 aircraft...

438 - let's go now.

..RAF Lossiemouth relies upon its 3,000 strong workforce

to be operational round the clock.

Lovely.

Q2 on state everybody.

Ladies and gents, Squadron Commander.

Thanks very much. At ease.

120 Squadron are Lossiemouth's elite surveillance unit.

There are quite a few people who will consider surveillance people,

a bunch of geeks or nerds.

I do like numbers. I'm certainly...

I'm certainly fascinated by numbers.

It's all about telling a story.

We were effectively in the fourth battle of the Atlantic -

from World War I, World War II,

the Cold War, and now where we are today.

We have aggressors, largely Russian.

My job as a surveillance mission commander

is to gather data

to make sure that we can counter threats.

And that's what Poseidon's able to do.

Lossiemouth is equipped with a fleet of nine Poseidons,

passenger-jet-sized planes packed with surveillance technology.

The Poseidon is a phenomenal capability.

Really, really capable beast.

It is a modern, next generation aircraft.

It is, literally, the front line of what is the most important thing

to the UK - to protect and defend.

And you've seen the world around us at the minute.

The ripple effect of this conflict has been felt around the world.

Its waters churned by leaking Russian gas.

Recent attacks on undersea gas pipelines

in Eastern Europe are threatening the continent's energy security.

Communications networks disrupted,

we've seen pipelines denied.

We've seen choke points stop passage of trade going through them.

Nobody doubts the damage

to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines is the result of sabotage.

A global war of words erupted over who to blame.

The 20 years that I've been in the service,

I've never seen it in such an unstable manner.

120 Squadron have just received new orders from military command.

OK, team, so we've had an intelligence update.

There's now a vessel in the vicinity of UK sensitive waters.

We're going to need to do an intelligence task on her.

So, we're going to be generating a surface plot

out over the North Sea and to the southwest of Norway.

British oil, gas and communications pipelines spanning

the North Sea are now a potential target.

If we know that it was coming from the west coast of Norway through

to the northern coast of the UK, then, you can think about doing

a ladder search, creeping line ahead search.

Alex, we need to think specifically

about what sort of radars are on this vessel

so, then, we can configure our sensors

to be able to listen for them.

I'm the new guy, I'm the newbie.

I studied physics, maths,

psychology and critical thinking.

Wow! Yeah, it sounds good on paper -

but I failed all of them so it doesn't really matter!

As the newest member of 120 Squadron,

this is Alex's first real mission.

Good morning.

Morning. Can I have 115, please?

Certainly. There you go.

Cool, thank you.

You can feel the energy level sort of increase. We're actually going

to go and do something that has an effect on UK national defence.

If you'd just like to sign for your kit there, please?

Lovely, thank you very much.

All righty, see you later on.

See you soon.

We're going to go out and collect an intelligence look

at this vessel.

Myself on ESM will be the primary sensor to begin with.

ESM is essentially a big hoover.

Everything that emits a signal

and we can identify them to specific types of vessel,

so it really helps us tie down what we're looking for.

MURMUR OF VOICES

It is a big deal to have something in that area

after the Nord Stream pipeline.

With the North Sea shipping lanes full of activity,

Mission Commander Ben is helping with the search.

You see the number of vessels that are there -

it's really, really quite busy -

so it means that the busier it is,

the more cluttered that environment is

and so the more difficult it is to break it up.

So, what you need to do is you need to try and hone in,

to pluck out the needles from the haystacks

so that, then, then you can potentially identify where it is.

Alex thinks he's located some kind of warship

hiding in a busy sea lane.

But to ID it properly and find out what it's doing,

they need to get much closer.

Good morning.

That's all good. Have a good day, goodbye.

That's all good. Have a good day. Goodbye.

Attention!

Morning.

Parade, stand at ease.

Ben and 51 Squadron RAF Regiment have been deemed fit to deploy.

Cyprus, yeah, it's going to be dandy, it's going to be fun.

I'm just looking forward to getting stuck in now and just get going.

Hands up who's been to Akrotiri before?

Not many of you, right?

Lossiemouth's Station Commander, Jim Lee,

has come to offer some final advice for the task ahead.

Hands up whose first deployment this is?

Ah!

CHUCKLING: Quite a few of you. OK.

But what you are doing out there is really important work.

You're going to protect the force elements

that operate out of Akrotiri.

And when everyone's away from home there are fewer distractions so you

can actually talk and understand a little about what each other do.

The first time you pack up your bag,

you go away from home,

leave your loved ones for an extended period of time.

Yeah, that does stick with you.

Please stay safe and please look after each other.

You might think that Akrotiri is a nice, benign place,

but it's got its pitfalls,

and what I ask everyone to do is look after the person

to the left and right of you. I wish you well.

Thank you.

Parade! Parade, attention!

Sir. Thank you very much. Carry on.

Parade, fall out.

Brought the whole box down, yeah. Don't need the box.

Oh, my God!

So there's me, when I joined up.

By deploying with the RAF,

Ben will also be following in his dad's footsteps.

So that one's the same as that one.

Look at the comparison. Look how similar...

I don't see much difference.

Well, that was... Civvy life's aged you!

I was young at the time, so it was, "Daddy's going away."

"Why? Why is he going away?"

As I got older and we started seeing more and more in the news, it was,

"Oh, Dad's there. Jeez! OK."

There is a complete difference

between your husband deploying and child deploying.

I am more emotional Ben deploying than what I ever was

with Richard deploying, I think because you have

to be strong for the children

and as a mum you don't let your emotions show.

At night-time when you're crying into your pillow

cos you're on your own, but, when the children are there,

you're strong and you're there for them.

But it's Ben deploying,

I think I'm going to be an emotional wreck.

I was 17 there.

17? Yeah. So, 17 there. I was 18 in there.

That's you. That looks like you. That's not... It is.

That's you. I don't think so. I'm just a lot smarter than you are.

You're just a lot skinnier, you're just tiny.

She said bye to Dad and now she's saying bye to me.

I want to make sure I take the right stuff.

I don't know what else I'm going to need.

A few civvy clothes, a few military clothing and that will be that.

As long as the washing machine works, I'll be all right.

Well, I live at home so I see my mum and dad every day,

I see my girlfriend every time I get a chance.

Um, and to go from seeing them

to not seeing them at all is going to be hard.

Four months away is longer than ever for me.

I'm missing Christmas. I'm missing my mum's birthday.

It is something you have to try and contend with when you go away.

Once I'm out there,

it's just about keeping your mind on the job

and trying not to think too much about home.

As horrible as it sounds, you don't want to think about people at home

because then you'll start missing them more.

In the North Sea, the Poseidon crew are tracking a suspicious ship.

I'm anxious because if I get it wrong,

we've just turned this, you know, £100 million jet

to fly straight towards this target

that is just, you know, a cruise ship or something.

Thankfully, we have the long-range camera on board

that I can use to get a close up of it.

It's the Admiral Vladimirsky,

a Russian spy ship.

We classify it as an AGI -

an auxiliary gatherer intelligence.

To a layman sailing past it,

it just looks like a normal vessel.

They don't know that it's a Russian flag,

they don't know it's registered to the Russian Navy,

so it's a big deal.

Everyone sort of sharpens up.

Everyone sort of leans forward,

gets their eyes on the camera.

Alex must now gather intelligence on the Vladimirsky

and find out what it's up to.

First, we need to record what's happening above the water.

The people on board - what technology do they have?

Any threatening or suspicious behaviour? Are they armed?

We need to figure out what capability this Russian ship has,

what kit they're using.

Once we figure that out,

we can start building the picture of what they are up to out here.

We've taken a whole variety of imagery,

whether it's the activities there on board the ship,

how many people are on board,

what they're doing off the edges of the vessel,

how many radars are rotating.

Are there extra radars on the vessel?

The Vladimirsky is sailing close

to vital pipelines that supply oil and gas to the UK,

so worries are growing about what might be happening underneath

the Russian spy ship.

If they are operating over the top of a pipeline,

is there something underneath them that's potentially operating

alongside that pipeline?

Is it potentially going to be up to a malicious act?

We need to think if things hanging over the side or trailing behind

are normal for that sort of vessel.

And if it isn't, what could they be doing and why.

Could this relate to other forms of surveillance or trying to interfere

with other things under the surface of the water?

So, we're going to get the sonobuoys in.

Going to listen to what's going on underneath the water.

The crew are going to drop listening devices into the sea

to find out what's going on underneath the Vladimirsky.

We're in the ordnance section of the aircraft and what we have here,

we will be deploying these, which are called sonobuoys.

Basically, they're going to be underwater microphones.

The data that the sonobuoys collect

will help to find out what's going on deep under the sea.

The sonobuoys need to be dropped in the right place

at the right time in order to gather the intelligence we need.

It's a whole team effort across the crew

and we need to get it right.

The team will have just minutes to gather as much data as they can.

Once the Russians notice the sonobuoys

and alter their tactics, the opportunity will be lost.

The Poseidon crew have just gathered classified intelligence

on a Russian spy ship, the Admiral Vladimirsky.

So, we've achieved our aims today

and gathered the intelligence that Defence has asked of us.

The information will be passed up the chain of command

to the right intelligence experts.

It is highly classified but knowing I've done my job

and played my part is a good day at the office.

Defence experts will now analyse what the cameras

and sonobuoys captured

and decide on what to do about the Russian spy ship.

Good, yeah. It was exciting.

We found what we were looking for so it's always a bonus.

All right, mate? All right, mate? How are you doing?

All good. How's things?

Not bad. Yeah, what you been up to?

Found it. Yeah? What was it?

Russian AGI. First Russian, mate. You're kidding. Congrats.

First one, though. It counts, it counts. Absolutely. Nice stuff.

Chucked a few buoys on it, did a nice little int look,

and sent it off to DSTL and Whitehall

and see what they come up with.

I'd say the operation was a success.

To get the first Russian in the bag is pretty satisfying.

Yeah, I guess you could say part spy, part detective.

Might have to put that on my Instagram or something.

Or on my name badge.

Alpha 1-2, request level passing.

Rotate, end board up.

Yeah, slide.

Cool. Right, so, next one.

Rations.

This is just the stuff we normally get for the month

so Pringles, Pot Noodle, chocolate bars.

The worst job on the squadron

is the Squadron rations officer and that is, sadly, my job.

31-year-old Ben Davey became a Typhoon pilot

a little under a year ago

and has just joined Lossiemouth's 2 Squadron.

I'm the most junior pilot currently on 2 Squadron,

so you are kind of given the mantel of rations officer.

Jelly snake? Go on, then, needs must.

This is, literally, all I've eaten today.

It's a shit job! Is it?

Yeah!

I am sick of the sight of jelly snakes!

After an intense first year,

he's now pushing for his first promotion from wingman

to lead pilot, to become capable of leading overseas missions.

When you've proven yourself as a reliable and competent wingman,

then you're afforded the opportunity to complete your pairs lead upgrade.

And that is a series of airborne sorties

where you're leading one or two other aircraft.

If something goes wrong,

will I be able to act without thinking, "Holy shit!

"Like, I'm, yeah,

"flying a £100 million fighter jet. I hope I've prepared enough."

Right, so just to reiterate,

I will play the part of junior wingman.

I'm combat ready.

0800. The aim of the sortie today will be

to kill and survive and also...

The first part of Ben's test is to lead a pre-flight brief

with 2 Squadron boss, Kev Terrett.

My job is to get Ben ready to go

and deliver world-class combat air power without error.

Because there's no margin for error.

A pairs lead is someone who's qualified to lead

a flight of two aircraft

and deliver across any threat in any environment.

That's a really big responsibility.

9 Squadron are in the Moray Bowl

so we'll be going exclusively to Delta 809 south.

Being a fighter pilot is as much about what you do on the ground,

in terms of planning and briefing

and communication skills, as it is in the air.

The DLOs we'll look for is to kill with the gun,

recognise the attack when entry cues

and correctly action an attack on entry.

Recognise and correctly att-action...

CHUCKLING: Recognise and correctly action attack cues -

that's a bit of a mouthful! It feels awkward talking to someone

when they're so much more experienced than you.

So, you're always second-guessing yourself, like,

"Have I just said something that makes no sense?"

Or am I, not making it up, but are my understandings incorrect?

Hopefully, be able to generate enough range,

either laterally or vertically, from the hostile,

to, then, execute

or to enact some good follow on BFM.

Any further points or questions?

No, thanks, mate. Good brief. No worries!

Ben must now lead his boss

on a series of high-speed manoeuvres.

He'll be tested on how well he flies

and how well he looks after his wingman, Kev.

There's no getting away from the fact that there is

a state-on-state conflict going on in Europe right now,

that could very easily escalate into something wider.

I have to know that Ben could lead

and make the right decision without recourse

to anybody else and get it right 100% of the time.

You are one wrong move away

from a major conflict in Europe at the moment.

It's like a tinder box.

You have to prove that you're competent and confident

and can be relied upon.

This is home for the next four months.

Regiment Gunner Ben Hoe has arrived in Cyprus

to begin his first overseas tour.

Yeah, this is my accommodation. So, it's four-man rooms,

so it's quite good. It means you're not gonna be on your own,

um, so you've got people to talk to, you've got a bit of morale.

It's all those bits and shit that you just kind of throw

in the drawer, isn't it? We all have that one drawer.

You know, even when you're not even at home

you have a drawer that just everything goes into and it's gone.

NEWS REPORTER: An adviser at the interior ministry said that

cruise and ballistic missiles had been used.

Ukraine's airspace has been closed.

Some said they could hear jets overhead.

Our main concern is with the growing environment

with Ukraine and Russia, we are on edge.

And I think it was hard for me to get to terms with

cos you see on a map where Cyprus is

and then Ukraine's just a little bit north of that.

NEWS REPORTER: Other reports of explosions

have been coming in from across Ukraine.

Russia also has forces stationed in Syria,

just 350 miles to the east.

If anything did kick off,

Cyprus would be one of the first places to get called up.

There's little time to settle in

before the new arrivals receive their first threat briefing.

So, here on Cyprus, then,

we have a lot of risk here when it comes to explosives.

So, there we go, that's a Brimstone.

We do have jets launching from here

with Brimstone attached to them

and that's the affect they cause at the other end.

The Paveway, however, has got a very large blast area.

We deal with both kinds here at Akrotiri.

It does bring it home how dangerous the military can be

but also what makes the base a target.

If the wrong people got into Akrotiri,

then they could cause us serious harm.

It's our job, if that ever happens, to stop them.

All in all, then, I've got 51 PES's - Potential Explosive Sites -

across the site.

All my aircraft that are going to be armed up

and have got a forward-firing weapon system,

all point out to sea.

But that's done for a reason, so if you're operating down

the bottom going out towards the beach area, just be mindful that

the Typhoons pointing towards you

may have armed directional weapons on them, as well.

We're on the outside of the wire.

We are going to be the ones who get hit first.

You know, your job is to possibly not come home.

It's not something that I speak about aloud

because you don't want to upset your family.

Ben's first shift on guard duty will begin in the next few hours.

Off the northern coast of Scotland,

wannabe lead-pilot Ben Davey's flying test is about to begin.

If you're leading a pair, people need to be able to count on you...

..potentially, to save your life and to save your wingman's life.

And being able to make sound decisions

with another jet aircraft at close proximity is definitely

the time that I've doubted myself the most

and doubted my own ability.

Ben must decide on a suitable patch

of clear sky in which to conduct

their flying manoeuvres.

It can be super cloudy and horrible at Lossiemouth.

You have to be able to see what you're fighting,

and it would be dangerous to fight in a cloud -

you increase the risk of a mid-air collision, probably, exponentially.

With his choice made,

Ben must show that he knows how

to keep his wingman safe throughout a series of fast

and difficult flying drills.

As the flight lead, you're there to make sure everything is safe,

you're monitoring your wingman.

You are expected to be able to fly your aircraft safely

but also recognise potentially

unsafe situations that are developing around you

and put a stop to those before they develop into something serious.

Barely into the exercise,

Ben changes his mind and halts the drill.

Ben now leads Kev below the cloud-line for better visibility,

but this also means their next flight will be closer to the ground.

If we're forced lower to the surface

because of heavy clouds,

we will set ourselves a safety base height

to make sure that we don't inadvertently crash.

5,000 feet sounds like a huge buffer zone

but, in a Typhoon, you'll eat that up in seconds.

You could be flying faster than the speed of sound going through base

and you'd find yourself in a situation where you couldn't recover

the aircraft before crashing into the ground.

And you can't let that happen.

AUTOMATED VOICE: Speed low. Recover. Speed low. Recover.

Ben has failed to notice Kev slip below

the training hard deck limit of 5,000 feet.

In a real war, you would have flown into the ground.

I think it was a bit shit, actually, but we'll see.

Difficult to tell really. But it wasn't great.

You doubt your ability all the time.

You always think you're there through kind of luck

and you're not necessarily there

because of your own ability and skill.

I think it could have been a bit smoother.

I don't like to try and have any

preconceived ideas of how it's gone

because, then, I don't want to be disappointed

if I think it's gone well and it hasn't. So, we'll wait and see.

Typhoon pilot Ben Davey is about

to receive feedback on his flight

with commanding officer of 2 Squadron, Kev Terrett.

OK, let's do it.

First of all, any safety points?

You tell me.

I think my mistake from my cockpit,

I hadn't noticed airborne that you'd gone through base.

I was 600 feet above so when I was looking back,

it didn't look like you were far through base. I wasn't, no.

When you're kind of leading these things

it's more of knowing where you are.

I'm at base, therefore,

the other jet's below me, so that's not right. Knock it off.

You've got to get used to looking after not just yourself,

but you've got to have a think about what you do to the wingman.

I should have knocked that off earlier,

or had a bit of forethought to look into the airspace

we were about to fly into. Mm-hm.

But I didn't want to make a bold decision.

No, I understand that but, you know, you've got to have

the confidence in yourself to make a decision

and back yourself, you know, because that's what the job's about.

Part of Ben's training is to try and build his confidence

and increase his exposure to different ways of fighting.

It was a great opportunity to go

and do air combat in that kind of weather

because it was tough today. Yeah. And that's where you learn.

It's easy money when there's not a cloud in the sky

so don't take any discomfort

from the fact that it was tough

and there were a couple of learning points.

For yourself, thanks for being a gracious wingman.

No worries.

I suspect he might walk away thinking

that it was a tough day at the office

but, from my perspective, that's fantastic learning for him

because I need him to be able to go out

and beat anyone else out there.

Everyone makes mistakes

and the training environment is the time to make them.

You normalise what you do,

it becomes the norm to go and fly a £100 million fighter jet

at 1.8 times the speed of sound and pull 9G,

but it's definitely high stakes.

The things that we could be asked to do,

especially with everything

that's happening in eastern Europe currently,

it's kind of at the forefront of your mind.

You have to believe that the people that selected you

and your flying instructors,

obviously, see some level of ability

and you're there because you're good enough.

Departures.

5-0, go ahead.

It's Ben Hoe's first shift in RAF Akrotiri.

One of the sensors on the crash gates has gone off

so we're going to go down and check it out.

It could be someone trying to get onto camp.

For inspection, report arms.

My job is to be able to use the SA80 as best I can.

We are gunners.

Our job is to use the rifle

that we have to defend what we need.

To fulfil his ambition to join a front line regiment,

Ben has had to overcome a major, personal obstacle.

When I was a young teenager, I came across a blood disorder

so my body started attacking itself.

If I got injured, I would bleed and I wouldn't stop.

Any physical activity, I could not do,

because it was feared that I wouldn't wake up from it.

I had to stay in bed. I couldn't go to school.

It was just gut-wrenching.

It could have gone a different way, where I needed treatment

or I needed my spleen removed,

and I would never have been able to get into the military.

I was quite overwhelmed when it happened,

especially getting the regiment badges,

thinking that I never knew I could do this or I never thought

I would be able to.

It is a big airfield with a load of...

A massive perimeter that we have to patrol so, if we didn't have

the cameras, it'd make our job a hell of a lot harder.

And if we didn't have the sensors as well, we wouldn't be able

to do our job properly. We'd miss loads of things.

It's now Ben's job to ensure the security of the base.

The gate went off, sensor-wise, so, whilst we're here,

we might as well go down the perimeter

just looking for any tamper to the fence

or any sign of someone being round here recently -

rubbish, car tracks where... You know, marks like that.

Seven-One, the fence line is all clear now,

moving to next objective. Over.

Another alarm has just been triggered.

We've a camera down, back the way.

So, we're going to have to get a shift on to get to it.

The boss has just said that one of

the cameras at ARABS Gate's gone down

so just gonna go have a look at it see what's what with it.

Worst case scenario is someone's tampered with a camera

to try and get onto camp. If we go and have a look and it is the cables

are broken, we need to have a look at, how was it broken?

Has it been cut, or has it been chewed?

If it's been cut, then, there's a serious situation

where we know someone else is on camp and tampering with things.

Camera, isn't it? It's that, over there. Yeah.

No sign of any physical tamper.

Have the sensors gone off, as well?

No, the sensors haven't gone off.

It's just a camera that's down. We're just going to have a check.

There's a vehicle coming now.

When we first saw the car,

we immediately thought it was something related

with why we were there.

You start thinking, well, why is he here?

You're going round the vehicle just to make sure, looking in,

just to see if anything looks out of the ordinary.

Seven-One, roger. Will do.

Seven-One, just spoken to the driver of the vehicle

and a local fisherman - showed me his ID and permit.

Over. He's all good.

It was a local man driving close to the area.

There was no reason to suspect he was involved in the situation.

If he didn't have ID on him, it would change drastically,

and we'd try and escort him off the area or call the SPA Police

to come in and handle, deal with him.

My mum is worried when I'm in Cyprus that,

you know, something could happen. I could take a fall or,

you know, my body could just go into relapse.

It always sits in the back of her mind.

It doesn't go away fully. You know, it could...

You could grow back into it.

You have to make peace with it because, if it happens,

then you know it happens, doesn't it?

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