We're taking a nice sea day in Salalah, Oman, today to catch up on email. Although the internet has been much better on this segment, we were having lots of satellite outages yesterday, so nobody could get on at all. We did have some excitement yesterday morning--an actual pirate yellow alert. We could see four small boats coming towards us at full speed so the Captain issued a yellow papa warning. I guess the people in the boats saw the ships defenses and turned away -- or as the Captain said, they were just playing games. Our trusty Israeli security discouraged any evil intent they may have had. After today we have four sea days in a row in the Red Sea--I've got the new Tom Clancy novel waiting to be read.