Environmental Impact Statement

Q: How often does a forty-foot sewage tank need to be pumped out when it's filled continuously by a hundred people on a Mercy Ship working in a shipyard?

A: Every day.

Q: And, how does it smell?

A: You don't want to know.

Q: Please elaborate.

A: Let's just say if you happened to be on gangway watch and couldn't go anywhere else to get away from it, you might be really really unhappy. Just hypothetically speaking.

Q: But can it really smell more foul than the stuff you were scraping off the bottom of the forepeak ballast tank with a plastic drinking cup two weeks ago?

A: No comment.

Q: By the way, did you just put that plastic cup back in with the rest to be washed?

A: Do i tell you how to do your job? And get that microphone out of my face--