Today was mostly spent in removing the rest of the contaminated diesel. As I had previously thought, we had problems with trying to get the last remaining dregs from the bottom of the tank, so we then moved the operation into the boat. “Unity” has a central engine room, and the diesel tank is situated along the left hand side of the engine and by using the small dipstick hole, we were able to remove nearly all of the diesel which was left. The problem was again, that the pipe didn’t want to go straight to the bottom, so after one straightened out coat hanger stuck up the pipe, we were able to control how far the pipe went towards the bottom of the tank. This was quite efficient and there’s now only about 1/4 inch of diesel left in. We can now move onto the next stage which will be to cut into the top of the exposed tank to make some sort of inspection hatch. It’ll be quite interesting to see what’s in there but it will be peace of mind to know that, once it’s been funny cleaned out, we should hopefully have no further problems.