At Jean-Bart, two years earlier, a terrible accident had happened just here; the breaking of a cable had precipitated the cage to the bottom of the sump, in which two men had been drowned.
Justement, c'était a Jean-Bart, deux ans plus tôt, qu'un terrible accident, la rupture d'un câble, avait culbuté la cage au fond du bougnou, dans lequel deux hommes s'étaient noyés.