Still Going

Today is Saturday and we are still about 22 hours away from Belize.

This morning I volunteered to replace the scuba tank holders on the dive deck. This was one job that didn’t require any painting for a change. I also didn’t thing it would be that dirty but it wasn’t that clean either. The plastic holders fit into an aluminum channel that is screwed onto the boat. I removed one of channels only to find out the holders themselves were damaged so badly and everything was so corroded that they wouldn’t budge. I tried another unit that had a single holder and that one worked properly so I switched it out. I was also able to remove 7 holders from the adjacent channel. In all I replaced a dozen holders but another 30 need replacing. We didn’t have any more parts however.

After lunch the captain suggested I look at their computer that wouldn’t boot. They have no disks on board – not even a repair or Windows disk. He did locate a Windows disk from a different brand PC and I tried to repair using it but it failed. I suggested that I move the hard drive to another PC so we could copy the data from it. I did that and was able to copy all of the presentations they use for customers and as well as many stolen movies. Luckily this took most of the afternoon.

Each day I’m more convinced that this is a mistake. Today I learned that the Steward (the captain’s girl friend) will no longer do watches. It seem as if she has to shortest schedule of any crew member but maybe I’m missing something.

I have been coughing badly ever since the 3rd of 4th day on board. I truly believe I may be allergic to all the mold around the boat. I’m sure its in the air.