The Great Mold Emergency of 2012!!!

Yesterday afternoon I needed to go deep into our food locker. It's mostly stuff for when we are away from shore and can't get fresh items. It's canned meets and veggies mostly. We've had this strange musty smell coming from  the locker for a few weeks that I wasn't really wanting to find out what it was or were it was coming from. Well, as I said, I went deep into the locker and there it was..... 6 inches of stagnant, black, moldy water!!! I started to empty the locker and slowly make sure nothing that wasn't already in the water shared the soon to be fate of the items that were already down there.... the trash. It took two hours to fully clean and half a gallon of bleach, plus a bottle of wine for the work crew! We threw out about 5 dozen cans of food and after checking some of the dates they were on there way out. So what are we to do, we laughed it off and had good learning experience. With our already loaded list of things to do, we now have one more project. Scott and I will be putting insulation in to keep that locker from sweating. It was the lack of air flow combined with a wet winter and no dehumidifier that was the culprit. We feel lucky as this could have been a health related issue for both of us. Mold, water, and salt are enemies of a boat!