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Sara Lee

Guest
what would happen if you hid in your cabin during the lifesavor mustard CALL ??

Will you get arrested or kicked off the cruise... If you have done the drill before and you dont want to do it , where can you hide ???????
or can you ????
 
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cruiserlisa

Guest
They check the rooms and I believe you have to check in at your muster station. If you don't check in they go looking for you.
 
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cruisemom2

Guest
Well, I never had to eat lifesavers OR mustard at the boat drill before! ;) Don't try skipping the drill, Sara Lee! As hot & uncomfortable as those life jackets are, you need to go so you will live to tell us about your FANTASTIC cruise that you WILL have on the Fantasy this time! :)
 
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bOB

Guest
Just about every line now uses a cabin roll call at the drill, and cabin stewards are checking cabins while the drill is going on. Thats not to say that you can't figure out a way to hide out BUT even though the drills are pretty much the same the procedure does vary from line to line, even ship to ship due to different layouts and IF there were a fire on board and rooms and hallways were filled with smoke it sure would be nice to already know where you needed to be rather than trying to figure it out at the last minute.

As far as what they do about it, all that don't make it to the drill, will be contacted and there is usually a special drill for them, plus you have to walk around in you life vest during your special drill so everybody knows you tried to sneaker out of the real drill and got caught, those with no sense of humor usually laugh and point fingers at you.

Go, get it over with, then start enjoying your cruise, a small price to pay for not being the cause of your own or somebody elses injury or fatality because you didn't know what to do.
 
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bOB

Guest
Or without a lifeboat, depends on the mood of the Captain..........................
 
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luv2travel2

Guest
They do not make you check in at the muster station.....But it is part of the cruising experience, you should go.
 
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frito

Guest
Put yor life jacket on and blend in with all the others. They would never think to look for you where you are supposed to be. Just don't go blowing the whistle, as you can't tell whose mouth it has already been in.
 
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lainie

Guest
It's a part of the Pre-Cruise Party and is not to be missed! Besides counting the # of cabin doors to the nearest stairwell from your cabin, it's one of the best safety measures to take. :) :) :) :) :)
lainie

Legend ’04 !
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Sara Lee

Guest
Ok... Ok . I will take my lifesavors and my mustard and go to the drill .... The only thing is the last time , we looked at the best place to GO IN A REAL EMERGENCY AND IT WAS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER AND WE TRIED TO GO UP THAT WAY AND THE DECK LADY SAID.. NO YOU ONLY GO THERE IN A REAL EMERGENCy

So Ill go to the show lounge .. thats where the tables are to sit ...
with all the life boat people ..
 
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debbiet7061

Guest
We will be sailing on the Carnival Legend in May and unfortunately we have a room on Deck 8. My mother who can hardly walk now needs to walk downstaris for the life boat drill. Does anyone know how we can help her out. I have never cruise before so I am not sure what to do. My mom is in her 80's.
 
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Sara Lee

Guest
I really dont think that they will make her go on the stairs... If you have a wheelchair or bad back or leg , the people standing at the elevators will let you on them.... Just tell them ..

In a real emergency I would hope someone would carry her ...
She aint heavy , shes someones mother ..
 
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MS QUEEN

Guest
I've never been on a Carnival cruise where they do a roll call. We sailed on the Holiday 3 times last year, and that third time, we pretty much had the drill down pat. They do check your cabin, but they didn't check that bathroom of ours! My mother, myself and my mother-in-law crouched down in the bathroom during the drill. We did have our life jackets in there with us in case he checked the cabinet...which I do believe that he did actually. It was the most humorous drill we've ever experienced.

When we were on the Conquest in March, my sister and my MIL had one too many welcome aboard drinks and slept through the drill. I'm sure that they checked the room, but they never tried to wake them up. That happens quite often from what I've heard.
 
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Sara Lee

Guest
MY FIRST RULE BREAKER .

The Bathroom I never thought of that and to think you were a smart enough cookie to TAKE the LIFEJACKETS AND LIFESAVORS OUT OF THE PACK ... VERY GOOD ..

This will help ... ON the princess , the guy said that they did not expect you to sign your name to prove you were there but did say they had way devised to check IN A REAL emergency is you were there..

THIS IS WHAT I THINK.. IN A REAL EMERGENCY .. they have those sign and sail machines when ever you go off the boat and I bet they bring those to the mustar stations and have you put in your sail and sign card ..

If you dont have it with you .. THEN YOU MUST GO BACK AND GET IT , hope you are not on the bottom floor ..

I dont really know but the bathroom is a good thing ... the shower .. close the shower curtain and be REAL QUIET ....
 
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YoRay

Guest
Seems to me as though, rather than crouching away hiding in the bathroom like a fugitive waiting for the police to knock & enter, it would be easier to just go to the drill.
That way you're on deck at sail-away departure...which is the best part of the cruise...for me anyway.
That's just an opinion...and you know what's said about those.

Oh yeah!.....Sara Lee, you mentioned the Sail & Sign machines. I wonder if , in a real emergency, as we're abandoning ship, they make us pay our bill before they let us onto the lifeboats. (that's a lol.)

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Post Edited (05-10-03 23:35)
 
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lizardstew

Guest
I sailed on the Ecstasy in January and they didn't do any sort of roll call. They just gathered us in our muster stations and told us what to do. If you wanted to hide in your bathroom....I'm sure you could get away with it. I assured my girlfriends (most of whom were first-time cruisers) that they all HAD to be there and that roll would be taken so they absolutely could not hide in the cabin with the vodka that we's snuck onboard.....I sure got an earfull afterward when the crew didn't so much as give any of us a second look!

However....on RCI, not only do they call out your cabin numbers, but they make sure they have the same amount of people out there to match the number of pepple staying in each cabin.
 
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Sara Lee

Guest
Yes YORAY

We will have to certainly pay for our debt before they let us REALLY get on those life boats .

Now the REAL matter that bothers me . IS IN A REAL EMERGENCY .. Is everyone GOING TO BE SO NICE ??
ARe they going to go down the steps in a kindly fashion or is it going to be like some of the disasters we see on TV of everyone pushing and shoving and trying to get in the boat before the ship even sinks...

WEll lets just hope it NEVER Happens .. Has there been a major cruise sink since the titanic .. ?

They did not HAVE LIFE BOAT DRILLS .. or sign and sail cards
 
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Dan40

Guest
SaraLee, Since the Titanic there have been at least half a dozen passenger ships sink.
Two I can think of are the Andrea Doria and the Achille Laro[Sp?] The latter was renamed and sunk off Africa, I think. Also I seem to remember a Greek line ship that was also renamed and later sunk. As I type another name comes to mind, Sun Vista, another renamed ship. Can anyone confirm this?
Plus the Coast Guard will sometimes closely monitor the lifeboat drill. When that happens we will all be on deck roasting in our pumpkin suits while you are hiding in your bathroom. Imagine how well appreciated you would be for causing hundreds of people to be held on deck for an hour or more while they go and find you.
Just join the "Pumpkin Parade" and go with the flow.
Dan
 
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bOB

Guest
Sun Vista was the former Celebrity Meridian, sank after a fire somewhere off the coast of Asia, no passengers lost due to all having attended necessary lifeboat drills and knowing where to go during the emergency.........................

Now there was a ship you could get lost on, a former ocean liner, had more secret passage ways and nook and crannies than a haunted house and one of the lower decks you could not get from one end to the other without going up a deck and then back down.



Post Edited (05-11-03 13:19)
 
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