"Hey, Dude – thanks for replacing the impeller. The engine sounds really happy now."
"Yeah, it seems to spitting a lot more water out of the exhaust. It's all good."
"I'm going to take a picture of the disintegrated impeller and all the bits you removed from the engine. I want to write a blog post reminding people where to look for the pieces to remove so they don't cause more problems later."
"Knock yourself out, babe. Tell them to look in front of the oil cooler intake."
…
"Duuude?"
"What now?"
"I only count six pieces of impeller blades here."
"Yeah, that's how many there were."
"No, the impeller had 12 blades, and four of those are still intact. Eight got shredded, and you recovered six of those. We're missing two more bits. Any ideas?"
"…Yeah, Ms. CSI Panama. My idea is…I hope those other two bits were small enough that the engine chewed them up and spat them out all by itself. I can't think of how else they could have gotten past the oil cooler; and I can't look at anything more internal, until we're anchored in the San Blas, or we maybe get to a dock somewhere. Think happy thoughts until we get to Mexico."
"Heggghhhnnnnn…."
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