Boat Drill

Yesterday I had my first boat drill. Boat drill is where they test us/refresh us on what to do in an emergency. Every Sunday we do a safety briefing with our guests where we wait at the muster stations (where the lifeboats are) and the guests come and we line them up, just so the guests know where they go in case of an actual emergency. During safety briefing I stand at muster station D and hand out wristbands to kids under the age of 11 so in case they are separated from their family, we know where to take them.

Boat drill is for us crew to complete our full emergency duties. So if there was a real emergency, I wouldn't just go to muster station D and hand out wristbands. I would first go up to deck 10 and make sure Club O2 is clear. For us camp staff, we meet at the Ivory Piano bar on deck 3 and bring any children with us. We then take the kids to our specifies miter station (mine is D) and we reunite them with their families. If we cannot find their families we keep them with us. We ALWAYS keep unclaimed children with us. We are then supposed to go back into the piano bar with any leftover kids, but our supervisor argues this. She says why would you and any children come back into the ship where something is going wrong?! So she tells us to wait at the muster stations.

Then we wait for the announcement for crew to reach their final destination. Mine had been a crew muster station on deck 4, but it is now muster station D. Which is nice because in case something does happen, I don't have to go anywhere!

I also had crowd and crisis management training yesterday. We just learn what to do in an emergency, how to be assertive and keep people calm. They showed us a video of emergencies that have happened on ships, one of which was a cruise ship in Europe that sank in 15 minutes. Thank guys, that didn't scare me or anything...

We also have I wear our lifejackets the whole one during boat drill. Here is me in mine- Hot, I know!