Blue Atlantic update

Yesterday, a Deck Crew from the Port moved on to the Blue Atlantic, and started bringing out the garbage onto the decks to be thrown away later. The ship was ransacked by the French Navy when they were looking for drugs, and so pretty much everything must be thrown out before the ship can be put back into use again, including bags of half eaten flour, rice, beans and wheat, and the personal effects of the Ghanaian crew who are now in prison, plus nearly all the contents of the ship's clinic. I toured the ship again with a bright flashlight, and saw both white and brown mice running through the galley and food stores. The massive cockroaches I saw last time seemed to have disappeared - maybe they were eaten by the mice. Today I hope to run a power cable from our ship to the Blue Atlantic so their Deckies can have some light to work in the foul lower decks, which are inches deep in water in some places that leaked in through open portholes during heavy rainstorms. Olly