Friday, July 27, 2007

Man Overboard..... not a drill.. but a false Alarm.... *PHEW*

So we had a bit of a scare this morning.
The Man Overboard alarm went off...
They take this shit very seriously...
We rushed up to our muster station and then up to the Heli-deck to look for anyone who may have gone overboard. But there was no one..
Once we all got checked off we realized no one was missing...
There were a couple of possible ways the alarm could have been tripped. But we are not sure what happened right now.

After they determined no one was missing we all met in the mess hall and discussed the incident. Sounds like we might be doing another practise session since we didn't do very well on this go round....

I'm just glad no one really got thrown over board.
By the time we would have launched the rescue boat, the guy would have been over a mile.. almost 2 miles behind us.
Imagine trying to find a little head bobbing up and down.. presumably with no lifejacket... in an area that large...

I can understand why they take this stuff so seriously...

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