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[status]It's been a busy couple of days. First, we moved today to our other favorite spot by the sand island. We are here with another boat - sv/ Perry and their kids. We did a nice dive this afternoon after arrival. The big news was our friend at Aloita Resort - Roc - had his 6.5m aluminum resort surf boat sink. He had just put two new Suzuki 150 engines on the boat three days ago and woke up in the morning with the boat on the bottom of the ocean in 8m of water. We spent most of the morning with our scuba gear diving and helping get the boat lifted up and put onshore. Long story short, it required dumping about two full bottles of air into the bilge to blow out the water and get the boat buoyant enough for the crew of about 15 guys on shore to pull the boat forward and slowly get is to shallow water. Finally, it was rightside up (it was upside down on the bottom) and they got the water pumped out. The engines are still being salvaged and hopefully by tomorrow they will be up an running - probably without a starter motor but we shall see. Otherwise, all is well and we will be here until Saturday night.
[weather] partly cloudy, 25C, 1013.9 pressure, 0-5 kts E, calm

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