Spree joins relief effort in Haiti

[Wookie]

The Spree received clearance yesterday to join in with relief efforts in Haiti. We will be housing the construction crew that is rebuilding the container dock so that aid can more readily reach Port-au-Prince. We have no idea what we will find when we get there, but I will keep our Facebook updated with pictures, progress, and our return. We are scheduled to be back in Key West for our April tech and wreck trips, and we'll be all over the Gulf of Mexico for the summer. This is not a volunteer mission, we will be paid for our services. Good thing cause it's not going to be cheap.

Thanks all for the well wishes we have already received, See you this summer.

Frank

 

[deepstops]

One of my Miami guys just returned from the US Navy Ship Comfort hospital ship. We were called in for some unplanned maintenance and repairs on their lab equipment. He drove to Jax (Mayport Naval Air Station) and was flown down on a C-2a COD (carrier onboard delivery) landing on a carrier, helicoptered over to the Comfort, spent two days doing preventive maintenance and repairs, helicoptered back to the carrier, spent a day waiting to be flown back to Mayport.

My engineer's "limo" for the weekend:

 

[mike_s]

Brian.... I hear landing in a COD is a rough experience. you land facing backwards even. (I think all the seats face the rear).


For those who want to follow Franks and the Spree's efforts in Haiti, he's been posting updates on the Spree's facebook page. (click "become a fan" and you'll get all the updates).

M/V Spree | Facebook

 

[me2me2]

I just returned on Sunday from a medical relief mission and all I can say is it is worse than anyone can imagine down there. I left a message on the Spree's face book page. I hope they have good security with them at all times and I hope they can find a way to experience the local flavor safely a little too! I recommended a nice restaurant that has good, cold, local beer if they can get out at all. They'll need a local driver though. Oh and don't look out the front windshield. Hair raising to say the least! I'm planning to go back in the next 8 weeks if possible. Good luck Spree and Safe Adventures to all of you!

Myra

 

[mike_s]

I read on their facebook page that they took someone with them that their primary job was boat security. They are now tied up to the pier that is guarded by Army Rangers. So they are prob safe.

They also said that they took 120 cases of beer with them. (for the commercial divers that will be working on their boat and for bartering.). so that should last them at least a week

 

[Shasta_man]

That would be quite the experience Deepstops.

 

[deepstops]

Brian.... I hear landing in a COD is a rough experience. you land facing backwards even. (I think all the seats face the rear).


For those who want to follow Franks and the Spree's efforts in Haiti, he's been posting updates on the Spree's facebook page. (click "become a fan" and you'll get all the updates).

M/V Spree | Facebook

Yeah, the seats face backward and the windows are above eve-level so you have no clue when you're actually going to hook the wire. He described the landing as a corkscrew nose-dive onto a spec in the ocean.

Thanks for posting the Spree's Facebook log.