My confidence in the ship’s emergency evacuation plan has been a bit shaken. We had a drill yesterday where we evacuated to a lifeboat that holds 150 people. The lifeboat is covered and rather small with little ventilation – a claustrophobic nightmare! One of the dancers couldn’t handle it and broke down crying and had to get out of the boat. I figured if anything happened to the lifeboat my best bet would be to hold my breath and wait for all the other people’s panic to subside before swimming through the small porthole directly above me. It took just about an hour for the crew to fill the boat and we fell 6 short of cramming 150 bodies into the boat – I guess those 6 would be s.o.l. in real life. The evacuation is supposed to only take a half hour and that would be with overweight, elderly passengers with limited mobility. The lesson of the drill: pray there isn’t an emergency or learn how to launch a life raft!
After the drill, I spent the day wandering around the port of Cadiz in Andalucia, Spain. It is a very nice city with a beautiful park and wonderful beach. I spent most of my day at the beach soaking up some Mediterranean (even though I was technically still in the Atlantic) sunshine – my first beach time since the Caribbean! I didn’t swim due to a brisk breeze and chilly water.
The bass player shared another one of his radical documentaries with me last night. The documentary is entitled “Loose Change” and is all about a conspiracy theory behind 9/11. I have to admit that it was fairly convincing and raised questions that I had never considered. I won’t go into details here, but if you can get your hands on a copy of it (supposedly it is illegal and considered a form of domestic terrorism), I recommend you check it out. I’m going to return home a crazy and radical revolutionary! Next up are lectures on the conspiracy theory behind the J.F.K. assassination.
(P.S. I learned a disturbing fact that my ship consumes 65,000 gallons of fuel per day!! Not exactly sustainable living!)
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So, I'll pray too that you don't have to ever have an evacuation!!
I'm a bit hesitant to get on a cruise ship... all these people keep falling overboard randomly, and now I learn that the evacuation plan was drawn up by an idiot on your ship...my confidence is anything but high!
:) Wow, apparently I had a lot to say on that!
HUGS,
Mandi
I think I've actually heard of this documentary Nick. PBS and KBDI show quite a bit of liberal documentaries. I'm not sure if I've seen the documentary or clips of it, I just remember some pointers they made. HOw it's impossible to melt steel for airplane impact on the twin towers, something about where the air fuel was found on the pentagon building (how they believed a part of it was blown up as well ). anywho, remeber Rosie O' Donnell when she was on the view? I felt so sorry for her. She's liberal and stated some pointers from this documentary (i think). and she also talked about the civillian lives lost from the war on Iraq and posed the questioned that it makes you wonder who the "real terrorists are". people had a field day with her, saying that she was anti-american, and called U.S. troops "terrorists". it was a bunch of bullshit (Donald Trump was on her case too -because she quoted something from the Fortune 500 magazine that upset him. Fuck, she didn't write it!), but I think the network or Barbara Walters had to "let her go" because she was too liberal. Too liberal can bee seen as anti-american to conservatives.
-p-dawg
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