Emergency Surgery

Kintala had emergency surgery today.  She developed an aneurism which we fortunately caught on time so her recovery is expected to be quick and complete.  It all started out with the installation of our new digital sound system.  In the process of trying to decide where to put the speakers Tim was chasing down wiring from old instruments that don't work anymore but no one took the time to take out.  The wiring was situated under the panel in the lazarette so after removing all the contents of the lazarette and going below, he happened to look down at the hot water heater pressure side hose to discover that it was ballooned out and ready to blow.  On closer inspection we discovered that someone had used soft vinyl tubing on the pressure side of the hot water heater, yeah the one that carries 140° hot water to the sinks and shower, that would be the one.  We turned off the water heater and the water pressure and quickly bled off the pressure in the lines.  After some creative draining of the hot water heater we cut the line and re-clamped it until we can go buy some proper reinforced pvc water line to replace it. So my newly acquired excellent hot water source is on hold and I'm back to washing dishes in cold water with the foot pump.  This isn't actually too bad since "cold" water around here this time of year isn't very cold and I happen to be particularly fond of the foot pump.

Here's the ugly (They even left the tag on to document it...):