Had a cook quit while working offshore, so the 1 cook and 2 galley hands were doing the best they could. We were working nights and a work boat showed up and radioed they had a cook for us, but he was drunk. So we lowered the basket and he threw his bag in it, but wouldn't get on. Capt. radioed that he wouldn't ride the basket up, but would swing in on the ropes. Ok! Capt. backed the boat to the ropes, cook grabbed a rope and mistimed the swell. When he pushed off, the boat went down, so he didn't go anywhere. The Capt., seeing the man's feet off the deck, gunned the boat and got it out of the way. The cook fell into the water and the thrust from the boat washed him all the way thru the platform and out the other side. Work boat had to go around and get him. We lowered his bag back down and told the Capt to take him back to shore.
