[Jolly Amaranto]

A buddy of mine years ago was a diesel mechanic on the gulf coast. The shrimp boat captains many times would sink their boats on purpose before a hurricane. They would remove all the electrical equipment and a few other things off the engine, plug up any openings and fill the engine with oil and pull the plug. After the storm and the boat was raised they would drain all the oil, replace it, reinstall the starter motors and everything else, crank it over and let it run a while before draining the oil again. With new oil it was good to go.