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On this episode of The Mercy Ships.

All general crew, day crew, and visitors

Report to your assembly stations on the dock.

FOB. FOB.

There's a fire on deck seven.

Aft cargo deck.

All emergency teams, please muster.

All emergency teams, to your muster stations.

All ships are required

by law to have emergency exercises.

Yeah. There it goes.

This is a drill.

This is a drill.

This is a drill.

All emergency teams assemble on deck 9.

We think about our drill scenarios very carefully.

We have all the teams get a page.

So we let this keep ringing.

We sit down

and create as realistic a scenario as possible

to work with a hospital that's running at the same time.

They have an expectation that they're going to deal with it in a certain way,

and then we'll throw something at them that they're not expecting.

Ok we have a change of plans.

We have a man injured in aft deck 6.

Fire on 6.

Are you in control of the fire?

We could cut their communications.

We could run out of air on their bottles.

Are they on air?

They're all on air.

They’re on air.

What is the situation with the fire?

We’ve been quite inventive in what we can scheme and come up with.

And they enjoy that.

It adds a little bit of entertainment to the drill,

so I always try and put something new in there if possible.

Every week we will have usually a fire

and followed by an abandoned ship routine.

When we're in port, the crew just evacuate on to the dock.

This is a drill.

This is a drill. This is a drill.

All general crew, day crew, and visitors

report to your assembly stations

on the dock.

Lifeboats are a last resort.

We will try and fight a fire on the ship.

For those of us who are serving at a longer capacity,

most of us end up doing basic safety training, which helps

train us to respond to critical emergencies,

such as if a fire alarm goes off and what to do.

My name is Morgan Georgioff

I'm from Cannon Beach, Oregon,

and I am one of the galley team leads here on the ship.

My role as a name caller muster taker is to be able

to take account for all the crew members who are coming down on the dock.

We want to make sure we know where everybody is

so that if for some reason there is somebody who's left onboard, we're able

to call the fire teams and be able to search for them as quickly as possible.

Yeah, can you give me an update on where all your teams are now?

Both teams are being withdrawn, they’re all out on deck 2.

I understand that's end of exercise.

That's correct.

All emergency teams.

The drill is ended for all emergency teams.

Secure from drill.

Secure from drill. The drill is complete.

This is the thing about a ship

is that especially if you're at sea,

you can't call the fire brigade.

We have to be able to deal with emergency situations on board.

A lot of it comes down to communication.

It needs constant drilling, reminders, familiarity, muscle memory.

If you want to put it down to something like that,

which is why we do it every week.

Ladies and gentlemen,

welcome to the 48 Hour Film Contest.

This means that we make a film in 48 hours.

Just some house rules for tonight.

We'll be taking all your phones.

- That's not possible. - Unacceptable.

Wait first, wait first, wait, wait.

Phones have a tendency of pulling us away from an artistic space.

And I need your minds really deep into what we are doing.

I'm not-- I'll put it in my pocket. I'm not going to look at it.

It's just for a few hours.

Guys, let's cooperate.

Here's what will happen.

At 7:30 p.m., we will receive a detailed

email from the 48 hour film festival team.

Until then, we have a few team building activities planned.

Tearjerker or sports.

Sports!

A toilet brush.

A toilet brush? We’ve got plenty of those!

I’ll read for you guys

What a tearjerker is.

It's a film that is specifically designed to evoke

strong emotional responses from viewers, often leading to tears

or intense feelings of sadness or empathy.

We're going to have writers stay here.

Everyone else, please spread out.

But I mean like there can be tears of joy and tears of sadness.

No, tearjerker is always sad.

He gets hit by a bike. I don't know.

He's swimming, and then he gets his by the Mercy Ship.

Like the actual ship?

You have 4 to 7 minutes.

I know that this isn't my job, but I don't know why,

but I think something with minimal dialogue would be better.

An architect volunteers at a hospital.

encourages patients telling them they can be anything they want.

Perfect.

But reality is actually a janitor.

That would be a bit...

It will be far from reality

'cause then what's the...

Okay, you're right, you’re right, you’re right.

We don't know where the toilet brush is coming in now.

What if we actually do a film on the real breakdowns that people have on the ship?

Like, you know, people end up in our wards all the time.

The next thing they hear is a real loud scream from Chris Murray.

So he walks in there and he finds his wife

in the bath

in her own pool of blood.

So which means she was murdered,

left there, and it was a setup for him to find her dead.

So there's an architect, that's you.

You sitting there, and you have no idea what's the next building.

But the deadline is coming out, and oh, what do I do?

And you look around and there's a toilet brush.

Wow. I'm going to

build a building that looks like a toilet brush, a tower, and then

there’s going to be a thing on top.

That’s dark comedy bro. That's dark comedy

Oh man.

These ideas are crazy, bro.

Okay, guys, I got it.

This is what we are going to do.

Coming up on The Mercy Ships.

So right now we're just headed over to Vavitsara, the previous patient of ours

We're headed there to take some photos of this wedding and give them in a

frame that Connor and Sebastian helped build for her.

To be her photographer, but also her friend as well,

is very, very, very special to me.

Well, the secret is that Beth’s sister Kate,

her twin sister,

is coming to the ship.

They are both, like, so excited about things.

So she's going to be exploding.

Jeez, that's going to be great.

It’s today!

I'm so excited!

Okay, we made it to DFW.

Here we are, I'm at my gate.

I literally can't believe I’m here doing this.

It's going to be so amazing. I can't wait to see Beth.

Beth has done several really big surprises for me.

When my first baby was born, secretly, she flew home.

She actually got there the day I came home from the hospital.

So Beth and Neill

have gotten a couple big surprises over on me.

Lukas and I, now it's our turn

and we get to plan this super special surprise for Beth.

Made it to Charles de Gaulle, Paris.

One eight hour flight down,

a couple more to go.

Beth has been here

for eight years and I have never gotten to come visit.

I've, I talk to her every day.

I've heard so much about so many people here.

Seen so many places on FaceTime.

I'm just excited to see her whole life here,

and, yeah, be a part of their lives.

So, things we do regularly.

So she's not suspicious,

in the dining room, that would be a good spot.

Jeez, that's going to be great.

Yeah.

Hey, can I sit here?

I work with a carpenter, George, from America.

He's a really fun guy to work with.

I'd say our main difference of personality

is I like to verbalize my thoughts a lot more than he does.

I'm very nosy about what he's doing.

If he's out working on something, I'm always like,

ooh, what's that you've got there or what you doing?

I've never seen one of them before.

Like that's kind of new.

Yeah, I mean, I don't think we've done

one of these before.

Kate from rehab came down with it.

I won't be able to send him back to Hope Center

without anything on that leg.

I'm going to need to either have the splint on or

have to put him in the cast, which I don't want to do.

I'm sure we can figure something out.

It's not one I've ever had to do before,

so I really appreciate your help.

And then she asked for me to rivet this Velcro

situation on and add kind of some grip on the bottom.

One of the ortho patients, one of the little boys,

they need to do some more work on him when the ship comes back,

but they don't want to leave him in a hard cast.

So he has something to, like, protect his leg while he's still healing.

But he can take it off and bathe and that sort of thing.

That’s clever. Yeah.

Keep his leg straight until the ship comes back.

I get you, I get you. Cool, cool.

How's it going?

Good. I'm just gonna put the straps on.

What about the rivets?

Do you think that that's going to cause an issue at all with comfort?

No. I think we've done well because these ones

will be hidden behind the front piece.

And it's that one up there.

I've just stuck some heat on it and sunk it in.

So because I heated it and then the plastic softens

and then I could just literally push it down with the Velcro being nice and firm.

It's going to stabilize it nicely.

On the top piece,

we’ve heat-gunned all of these to smooth them over so they're nicely rounded.

So how long will he have this on again?

So I think the plan will be that we'll review him

basically when the ship comes back.

So we'll try and review him early on.

We're going to keep him

seeing him here after we put it on to make sure that it's comfy.

So he comes after lunch. Is it okay if I come--

- check it out? - Yeah. Definetly come on down.

He's super cute, so he'll love all the attention.

- Awesome. - He's good for cuddles.

I'm looking forward to it.

- See you later. - Thanks, George.

Should we take your cast off?

Yeah, let's get rid of your cast?

Let's do that.

Okay. There you go.

Now we're going to do a noisy saw.

What are we going to watch?

- Yes, yes! - Yes.

We're going to watch Bluey or Wiggles?

Spiderman.

Spiderman?

Yes.

♪ Side by side ♪

♪ We’ll rise above, with every step ♪

♪ We'll feel the love ♪

♪ In every moment ♪

♪ We'll find the light, together strong ♪

♪ We'll win the fight ♪

♪ When the times get tough ♪

♪ and tears do fall ♪

♪ I'll be there to catch them ♪

- ♪ through it all ♪ - This your leg?

♪ We’ll shed the load ♪

♪ and lift each others hearts ♪

♪ Together we can touch the sky ♪

Good job. What about this? Can you push up?

Lovely. So, Ibrahim, do you remember that we made this last week?

And I put your name on it. See?

Ibrahim. So we know it's yours.

Hush hush hush hush hush.

Hey Ibrahim, do you know George?

She asked me to come today so that I can be there for the fitting.

That way, if there's any adjustments in the future, I can help with that.

I get an idea by

by seeing the patient wear it.

How much of a-- of a rise we might need underneath,

or what kind of other adjustments might be needed.

We'll get him up and take him for a walk.

And because we've shaped it to his leg, you should be able

to be really nicely firm on that.

Does it feel okay?

Yeah?

You want to walk up?

Is it ok? It's not rubbing here?

No rub? No?

No scratch? Good boy.

Kate was just saying his one leg, because it's a little shorter,

we might need to add a little bit of

a lift under the shoe that I made.

Even a half centimeter,

like 50-- 5mm sort of thing.

Maybe? But we'll see.

We'll give it a few days

and we'll decide on what that lift is, is going to need to be.

Yeah, so right now we're just headed over

to Vavitsara, a previous patient of ours.

We're headed there to take some photos of this wedding,

document it so we can finish off her story, but also,

so that we can capture some of those photos and print them off

and give them in a frame that

Connor and Sebastian helped build for her as a gift.

I have been covering her story for the past month.

So we've been with her the whole ride.

So we were very honored to be invited.

And we're also extremely excited about it.

She knows I'm going to photograph it.

I'm really hyped because I've never been to a Malagasy wedding before.

I hear they're super fun.

Lots of colors, really great food, music, and all that.

These roads are a little bumpy,

but the scenery is really beautiful as you can see.

Lots of zebu around,

lots of farms.

Yeah. Good time.

It'll take about nine hours of driving to get to the village.

And when we got there,

people from the village met us and sang as we hiked

two miles to the village.

Josh!

Salama!

One of the things about being a photographer for Mercy Ships

is you get the privilege of following these patients

throughout their entire journey, when they go home as well.

So to be her photographer, but also her friend, as well.

Somebody who's followed her along, the whole entire process

it's like, very, very, very special to me.

I really care about her.

She's like a friend of mine,

and I was able to have the privilege of sharing the excitement

when she had first got the goiter on her neck removed,

and when she first saw herself for the very, very first time,

and to see like the joy that she had.

And so I would also love to be able to share in her joy of being married as well.

Oh, very cool.

Thank you for welcoming me.

Woo!

Coming up on The Mercy Ships.

♪ I thought that there was ♪

♪ No way for me ♪

♪ But He gave me hope again ♪

♪ Only God, oh ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

The engineers came to us

having some issues with garbage coming in their water intakes.

So we came up with this design.

Hopefully they do well.

And, I hope that the Captain is happy with the results.

These sea chests, once we've installed them, after a week

or so that we're finding that, they are quite fragile.

So at the moment they

are working, they’re doing the job, but they’re not doing the job perfectly.

So we will need to reevaluate the design, maybe use different materials,

more sturdy materials, and

reassess when we get to the next time.

All right.

Well, this one looks like it survived okay.

Yeah. Not bad.

We’ll have to take note of this.

This one does have the extra cross bracing.

So maybe that's something we continue to practice with.

- Yeah. - And play around with it.

We get there in the end.

It's trial and error on a lot of things.

Okay, I guess you got some more work to do, George.

- Yeah. We'll take care of it. - We'll perfect the technique.

Okay.

It's only been a short

while that we've been using them, but it's been a success so far.

The engineers seem to to be very pleased with them.

We'll continue to to monitor things moving forward.

The dive team and along with the carpenters,

they came up with the new design and it's working really well now.

So, hats off to those guys.

So Raximo and Wise took the song back to the studio,

and now the Captain has invited the children to come to the ship and sing

the song for the patients.

I can't wait to share it with them.

So, I met these kids, a few days ago.

And we've been singing together, and we've been making a song together.

So we actually had the privilege to write

a song about the things we do on Mercy Ships.

Many of you know, the feeling of being discouraged

or the feeling, maybe of being ashamed.

So, I would love to get a big applause

for all these children from the blind school.

♪ When I wake up in the morning ♪

♪ I praise God for what He's done ♪

♪ I always used to hide, ♪

♪ But He brought me back into the light ♪

♪ I thought that I was all alone ♪

♪ And finally I see ♪

♪ God always went before me ♪

♪ He took the weight off my shoulders ♪

♪ He healed me from my pain ♪

♪ And brought my ♪

♪ Hope back again ♪

♪ Troubles won't take me under ♪

♪ Cause God turned it around ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can do it for me ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can turn it around ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can do it for me ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can turn it around ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Nobody else ♪

♪ Yes, only God can do it ♪

♪ Bringing all the hope and healing ♪

♪ To the world’s forgotten poor ♪

♪ You see me today ♪

♪ It’s only God that makes me smile ♪

♪ You see my brother ♪

♪ He’s only gonna make you smile ♪

♪ ’Cause nobody else can do this thing, yeah ♪

♪ Nobody else can do it for me ♪

♪ It's only God ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Ay Oh ♪

♪ I thought that there was no way for me ♪

♪ But He gave me hope again ♪

♪ Only God, oh ♪

♪ Only God, oh ♪

♪ You healed me from my pain and sorrow ♪

♪ Now my feet can dance again ♪

♪ Only God, oh ♪

♪ Only God, oh ♪

♪ I thought that there was no way for me ♪

♪ But He gave me hope again ♪

♪ Only God, oh ♪

♪ Only God, oh ♪

♪ He healed me from my pain and sorrow ♪

♪ Now my feet can dance again ♪

♪ Only God, oh ♪

♪ Only God, oh ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can do it for me ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can turn it around ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can do it for me ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can turn it around ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Look at me now, yeah ♪

♪ Look at me now, yeah ♪

♪ Look at me now, yeah ♪

♪ Look at me now ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can do it for me ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can turn it around ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can do it for me ♪

♪ Only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God can turn it around ♪

♪ Only God, only God can do it ♪

♪ Only God, only God that can do it ♪

♪ Nobody else that can ♪

♪ Do it more than You ♪

♪ God, only God, only God ♪

♪ That can do it ♪

♪ Nobody do it more than my God ♪

♪ Only God ♪

♪ You are the God ♪

♪ You are the God ♪

♪ Everybody now shout hallelujah ♪

♪ You are the God ♪

♪ You are the God ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah ♪

Captain, have you seen this developing depression further north?

Is this the one we were worried about earlier?

It is, well, Freetown here you see that

it's quite benign.

But we have this lot coming down.

Yeah, that looks particularly nasty.

So we've just changed from dry to rainy season.

The change of seasons here in Africa can be really bad.

The winds here can be quite strong,

which can be dangerous for the ship.

You’ve got to get away from here,

get away from the lines.

We have to do something quickly.

Or we could lose the gangway.

Coming up on the next episode of The Mercy Ships.

You're in an exotic location.

Not every nation has, of course,

a theater or a cinema or all those things.

But they do have majestic nature

and beautiful landscapes.

So if you love outdoors,

then you're in a wonderful place.

I appreciate the team

that stayed up all night.

Car number two here.

We got lost.

Looking forward to what we do today.

So I'm hoping we can get out of here

in another 40 minutes.

It's going to be tight because they're

practicing and Darwin hasn't

decided which actress he wants yet.

Waking up at 3 a.m. every day

definitely isn't easy,

but it's what we have to do.

This ship is like a village.

If all the parts don't keep moving,

then everything will crumble.