Journal of the eightysixth day on board

27th July, 1999

Yesterday we took apart all the equipment that we had on board the Alicudi for the expedition. The time it took: 28 hours. The level of the boat in the water has visibly dropped. The boat seems to have risen from the surface.

For a few hours now the Alicudi has left Lampedusa heading towards Arbatax. We will travel non-stop. The sea is finally calm and along our course appear on the surface the bubbles of fish and the outline of turtles. They also, after many days of rough sea, seem to bathe in the tranquillity of long awaited dead calm
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Tomorrow my best wishes…. And my goodbye!