The Quest TV programme in the Mighty Ships series, scheduled to go out tomorrow, has now been rescheduled for Tuesday 14 September at 9pm on Freeview channel 38. The programme features the Mercy Ship, Africa Mercy, and our son Olly talks to camera in his role as Dive Team Coordinator on the ship. He also tells us that his family can be seen in the background. Its just over 7 years since Olly and his family left England to train as Mercy Ships volunteers and they have spent most of those years working amongst the desperately poor people of West Africa. (The Dive Team has to go deep under the ship twice a week to remove rubbish from the water intake otherwise the engines overheat, the electricity fails and the whole ship grinds to a halt.) Photos show Olly in the filthy waters of Benin and the family in Benin, 2009.
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