During our trip we got a lot of lobster traps and fishing gear caught around our propellers. So we had to dive in today to cut off all the lines so we would be ready to go out whenever we needed to. We have dive gear on board the ship for this job and I have all my dive certifications. Each propeller had a lot more line on them than I thought they would. We cut and unwrapped all the lines. In some spots we had to use scrapers because the lines caused so much friction they melted to the prop shaft. We piled up all the cut lines up on the deck.
We changed the oil and serviced our starboard generator . We change out the raw water impeller. The old one looked like it was starting to crack. We took apart the air intake and the heat exchanger and cleaned them out. We also took a look at the turbo’s bearings to make sure they were ok. We then cleaned it up and did a little touch up painting.