dhays
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Yes, Dave, kudos for your calmness. And yes, it might have paid to drop anchor a bit sooner, but hindsight is great. Now we are all agog as to what the issue turns out to be. The thing against your diagnosis re the low oil pressure is such a low pressure. Even if contaminated with diesel oil, one would still not expect such a huge drop - ie, enough to set off the low pressure alarm. What was the dipstick level..?
Dipstick was about twice as high as it should have been. So their was a whole lot more volume in the pan. I am completely ignorant about anything mechanical but to me it seems there are only two possibilities, water or fuel. It didn't seem like water so I was guessing fuel. Hard for me to tell but it seemed to me that it smelled like diesel a bit.