Yesterday and today were awesome! Yesterday we had whats called "Sinbad Games," a competition amongst the 3 divisions on board for the sinbad champs title. There were a total of 16 events today. The first event started at 0700 with the Medusa 10k (5k rowing machine and 5k run around the main deck of the ship {20 times}) and ended with a Tug-of-War competition after a delicious barbecue dinner on the fantail. Some of the events included a bosuns chair lift, the lifeboat crank up, plumbers nightmare and bucket brigade. I took part in the lifeboat crank-up which involves manually cranking a lifeboat from the main deck to the stowed position, it took about 7 minutes to do and about 16 guys switched off.
Today was all about firefighting training. My training group of about 16 combined with our senior group and we learned how to fight fires using the onboard hoses and extinguishers. We donned the firefighting gear and went for the fires. It was a lot of fun and we got completely soaked. Enjoy some of the pictures from today!
5 days till Hawaii.
V/R,
CDT Jonathan Anderson
Squad Leader, Division 6 MT
Corps of Cadets
California Maritime Academy
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