So last week, during prep for departure, there was a fire on board the Ronald Brown. I'm not 100% sure of the details, but it had to do with the electrical switch in the engine room. Apparently there was quite a bit of damage. After a lot of frustration, it was decided that the boat will now depart this coming Monday (a week late). My leg of the trip shouldn't be affected. They are doing a sea trial on Friday, so Matt is heading down to gear everything up. The issue with that is he doesn't have a way to Charleston. That is where I come into play. I'll be driving him down tomorrow after my afternoon class. It's kind of nice though because I will get to see some old friends while I am in Charleston. The bad news is that I have to be back in Raleigh for class on Friday at 12:25.
I really hope all of the bad things that might happen on the boat have already occurred. I might freak out a little bit if we are drifting around the South Pacific and there was a fire on board.
I should get back to work. I need to prepare for a presentation I have to give in my Convection class. It is the 2nd of 4 that I have to present before I live in a month. If I can make it through the next 33 days, I have a feeling I shouldn't have any problem with the rest of my graduate school career (I hope).
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Jake,
I am pretty sure its Coast Guard regulation that you take some sort of evacuation course before you depart but do you know if you will be trained to assist if something like that would happen while you are aboard?
Chad
Chad,
We will be trained extensively. We will have to do fire fire drills and abandon ship drills before we leave port. We will also have to repeat these weekly.
I will probably not be trained to assist in the case of an emergency. I think that is mainly the responsibility of the NOAA Corps officers on the boat. By having someone assist who is only on board for a few weeks would probably just cause more problems for them.
I am not too worried about something happening. I usually don't panic. Also, we are going to be near an island with a Chilean naval outpost.
Jake
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