A frank account in 11 parts of life on the ocean wave in one of Her Majesty's ships - continues the Fly on the Wall season. 8: Florida, USA
After two months at sea, every man jack is out for a good time. Disney World, the beach, the pool, the swinging clubs of Jacksonville are all favourite haunts. But the flight-deck handlers turn from pleasures of the flesh. Keen ornithologists, they bird-watch among the snakes and alligators of the Everglades. L/STEWARD CONWAY has meanwhile crammed a wedding and a honeymoon into his three weeks. He leaves his new wife weeping on the quayside, as Ark steams off under the benign eye of the local police chief, who gives the British sailor ten out of ten for good behaviour.
Photography PATRICK TURLEY Producer JOHN PURDIE