My friend Gray, who is from Ghana, took Lotte and I down to the engine room which is located on Deck 2. Deck 2 is completely underwater. When I got down there I was amazed at the size of the room and anyone can keep everything straight. It is very noisy , with lots of alarms going off. Gray took us around an explained everything to us.
He showed us the back up generators and explained why Mercy Ships has to go to dry dock in South Africa. The back up generator causes the ship to move too much so if we needed to use it then no surgeries could be performed. So in South Africa they are cutting a huge whole in the side of the ship to take out the old generator and put in a smaller one. The cost them about $6 million to do this.
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