Sink or Swim – Lifeboat drill

Now some of you know at times I’m a real scardey cat

As much as I put on brave face – especially when flying

I have been known to worry about things going wrong

Lets just say when I get onto a boat/ship the first thng I check

is where the lifejackets are and also where the lifeboats are

So off we go to Alaska in August on the Zuiderdam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Zuiderdam

and on my first venture round the deck

I spot this little number

Not going to get many in there is my first thought

Don’t be daft my dear one says

look at your room card

Boat number 2 is ours

So off we go to lifeboat muster -without lifejackets this sailing

Rules have changed for this drill because theres nothing worse

(or dangerous)

than trying to make your way up and down

the inside stairs and passageways

(unless its a real emergency lol)

complete with a bulky lifejacket

So we make our way to Station Number 2

Not that one says Dh – it says 4

So are you telling me that we are down further

in that little tiddly one I saw earlier

Surely that can’t be ours 😦

Oh, we came from the other direction

and the number is painted on that big one up above

At the end facing the station number

Relief after all :))

The day we arrive in Skagway and are getting ready to go ashore

I notice some movement along the line of lifeboats

down below our deck

The lifeboats are starting to be lowered off the side of the ship

Love that relection on the verandah panels

Right on down to the water they go.

Oh goody – they have roofs

I wont get wet if we have to use them

Hush Catherine – those thoughts are not necessary lol

My dear one stayed in the room longer and saw them reach the water

It was good to know the crew does practise their lifeboat drill

Now I’ve told you that a short while after that

we took the Marine Atlantic ferry Joseph and Sarah Smallwood 

from North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Joseph_and_Clara_Smallwood

Can you imagine

my surprise – joy – feelings

 when I saw the size of ‘this’ lifeboat lol

This is my post for Watery Wednesday

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