O.k. Guys, so I passed CPSC (Lifeboat driving). It just happened to be the roughest day we've had in the entire 3 week course and of course we have to do our driving test!!!! But we passed!
So we had a party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Celebrate and be merry!
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
CPSC Oral Test
Hello Everyone!
Well I am on the last week of my liferaft/lifeboat training course. I have learned how to save 2000 people when ship is sinking, distribute rations, heal the sick, not to fire a rocket flare at a plane and how to drive around in that tub and park along side the ship. Needless to say there are some marks left behind from me on the Sea Princess, however unlike previously, these marks are physical as opposed to my usual emotional marks. h aha ha.
Today I did my Oral Exam and I got 100%, no problems, knew all the answers and was confident which the examiner liked. Tomorrow is my last lifeboat driving practice and then the next day is my driving exam. I'll keep you all posted.
By the way, I also go back to Day Work on Saturday so life will change drastically. Talk to you all soon.
Well I am on the last week of my liferaft/lifeboat training course. I have learned how to save 2000 people when ship is sinking, distribute rations, heal the sick, not to fire a rocket flare at a plane and how to drive around in that tub and park along side the ship. Needless to say there are some marks left behind from me on the Sea Princess, however unlike previously, these marks are physical as opposed to my usual emotional marks. h aha ha.
Today I did my Oral Exam and I got 100%, no problems, knew all the answers and was confident which the examiner liked. Tomorrow is my last lifeboat driving practice and then the next day is my driving exam. I'll keep you all posted.
By the way, I also go back to Day Work on Saturday so life will change drastically. Talk to you all soon.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Liferaft Training
Today we went to a swimming pool in Barcelona to do practical excercises with liferafts. We took it there while it was in its little "davit" box, through it into the water in the box and pulled the cord to have it inflate. Then we performed all of the tasks, pulling a person into the liferaft, pulling yourself int the liferaft, pulling an unconscious person into the liferaft, flipping the liferaft back right side up and finally a full abandon ship exercise and putting us (15ppl) into this little liferaft and having to bring in casualties etc. It was a fun class, but i'll tell you, my arms are bruised all over the place from being hauled up into the liferaft. So anyways...these pics one is of me pulling Amy into the liferaft, the other is of me when I was launched into the liferaft, I went in head first and then finally me and Joseph holding the liferaft steady. As promised, in all of the pics I am in my "sexy" coveralls!
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Driving a Lifeboat
So today was my very first day actually driving a lifeboat. WOW! We went up to Deck 7, wearing our white coveralls like real "technical" working people. Within 5 minutes of climbing around the wires to release the Lifeboat I got my first dirt mark on my coveralls!!!!! I'm sooooooooo technical now!
We did the checks of all the wires and hooks and then were lowering the lifeboat to the ocean. For a brief moment I began to question WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING...as i'm picturing the cable snapping and us plumetting to the ocean. However we hit the water without drama. After a few people had their turn it was mine....super fun, although its a little bit like driving a bathtub, but bigger! Very hard to steer. Now my last turn was just before we were going in so the instructor asked if I would like to park under the cables. I laughed and said "are you crazy" he said nope, give it a try. So in I went, steering towards the ship, praying not to screw up, waiting for the intructor to hell commands and then I realized, he said turn to Starboard and the tub wasn't going as sharp as I would like. I hit reverse yet it was too late, with a bump we hit the ship, luckily it was very very tiny little bump. The instructor laughed so hard I thought he would go overboard, at that time I look up and in the window of the Purser's office is a note "SLOW DOWN MEG!" How fantastic that they would try to help me!
Anyways...lesson learned, must come in slower, must crank wheel harder and must ignore instructor as he had more fun with me doing what I did then if I had made it!!!!! Stay tuned.
We did the checks of all the wires and hooks and then were lowering the lifeboat to the ocean. For a brief moment I began to question WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING...as i'm picturing the cable snapping and us plumetting to the ocean. However we hit the water without drama. After a few people had their turn it was mine....super fun, although its a little bit like driving a bathtub, but bigger! Very hard to steer. Now my last turn was just before we were going in so the instructor asked if I would like to park under the cables. I laughed and said "are you crazy" he said nope, give it a try. So in I went, steering towards the ship, praying not to screw up, waiting for the intructor to hell commands and then I realized, he said turn to Starboard and the tub wasn't going as sharp as I would like. I hit reverse yet it was too late, with a bump we hit the ship, luckily it was very very tiny little bump. The instructor laughed so hard I thought he would go overboard, at that time I look up and in the window of the Purser's office is a note "SLOW DOWN MEG!" How fantastic that they would try to help me!
Anyways...lesson learned, must come in slower, must crank wheel harder and must ignore instructor as he had more fun with me doing what I did then if I had made it!!!!! Stay tuned.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
CPSC Course
Well I have been advised that finally the curse has hit me. I must take the CPSC course. This course is a 3 week course taught by a Fleet Instructor who comes from Head Office. The purpose of this course is to teach crew to drive the lifeboats!!!! Yup those orange "tub" looking like boats that are awful to drive I now have to learn to drive. Reason being...my emergency duty has be as 1st in charge of a lifeboat and so far because I didn't have the course someone else has to do that part of my duty. But unfortunately this Fleet Instructor has decided to come and its my time, along with 12 other people.
So starting the 2nd of Sept. not only do I have to work from 11pm until 8am but I then have to do handover to learn my new job which will be Front Desk Supervisor during the morning once i'm done my job and then at 2pm I have to go to class until 5pm every day. Sometimes this class is practial, driving boats, sometimes its theory. And they expect that I stay awake through these classes?!?! Anyways...I was pretty upset, 3 weeks of this is a joke, but i've decided that oh well...the course should be fun, another AP is in this course so we should have fun and if I sleep in class that is their fault, they are the ones who've TOLD me I have to do this course.
There may be hints of bitterness in this story because I'm just learning to get over it, but in the end I know I will have fun with it anyways. And i'm sure in the long run there is a reason for everything. So I will have like 0 time to go ashore but maybe I can put in some pics of me driving the lifeboats???? Stay tuned
Lots of love from the cursed.
So starting the 2nd of Sept. not only do I have to work from 11pm until 8am but I then have to do handover to learn my new job which will be Front Desk Supervisor during the morning once i'm done my job and then at 2pm I have to go to class until 5pm every day. Sometimes this class is practial, driving boats, sometimes its theory. And they expect that I stay awake through these classes?!?! Anyways...I was pretty upset, 3 weeks of this is a joke, but i've decided that oh well...the course should be fun, another AP is in this course so we should have fun and if I sleep in class that is their fault, they are the ones who've TOLD me I have to do this course.
There may be hints of bitterness in this story because I'm just learning to get over it, but in the end I know I will have fun with it anyways. And i'm sure in the long run there is a reason for everything. So I will have like 0 time to go ashore but maybe I can put in some pics of me driving the lifeboats???? Stay tuned
Lots of love from the cursed.
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