Official

From the Mercy Ships Int'l Operations Center, Friday, Oct 6:

Dear Alumni

We have recieved the following update from Mercy Ships founder Don Stevens about the future of the Caribbean Mercy.

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I am pleased to announce that Mercy Ships completed the sale of the Caribbean Mercy on Oct 5, 2006 to a family charitable trust who plans to lease the vessel to CME at Sea Ltd. I appreciate the work done by Jim Paterson and the marine operations department in facilitating this process and am thankful to God for providing a buyer.

CME at Sea Ltd plans to prepare the vessel for service in Central America by adding to the medical facility on board. In addition to offering medical care, they also intend to provide training and continuing education opportunities for US based physicians.

The company is currently in negotiations to keep the ship at its present location in Chickasaw to do their preparations.

I am reminded again of the thousands of people who were given hope and healing through this vessel and her dedicated crew.

Don

*Ed. note--
for the curious....CME At Sea Ltd.
and for the rest....one last look.