fianlly back from Florida. it was boring. as expected.

the trip back was long. and annoying. and boring.

the last day, though was intersting. here goes:
el capitain wanted to do a man overboard drill. but instead of telling us it was a drill, he played it off like it was the real thing. and when the real thing happens, CIC (were i work) gets all chaotic; radio transmissions go out, plotting on charts and calculations go on...crazy. so we're doing all that and as we are turning the ship around to retrieve the "man" in the water, one of the water feeds for one of the two boilers in the engine room stopped sucking in water. so the boiler lost its fire and stopped providing juice for the generator, and the entire ship had a power loss for a few seconds. well that fucked everything up, and since CIC is 99% electronics (very important electronics mind you) we lost all radars, communications, indentificators; EVERYTHING was down.

ha holy shit it was funny as hell!!

so now its even more chaos as we try to get everything back up and running, while maintaining the man overboard proceedures. man it was crazy.

anywho after a few minutes we got our radars going and comms up and whatnot and all was eventually calm. the captain later came over the loudspeaker and indirecty appoligized for the causulty.

boy that was a thrill. pretty cool with all the yelling and running around and me just sitting there laughing inside.


but ya other than that, tomarrow is a day off for everyone else but me. why?

DUTY.

figures...

.RocK.