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Sunday, March 16th, 2014 – another sea day but it didn't start out very quietly. We had just woken up but had not gotten out of bed yet when the Captain announced that there would be a piracy test drill in 15 minutes.
The long signal would sound followed by the words, “testing, testing, testing”. At that time we were to leave our state rooms and find the nearest corridor or hallway and sit on the floor, as those areas would be the furthest points from gunfire on the outer decks and would give us the most amount of steel reinforcement protection.
He went on to say that all the generators would be engaged to give us the most power and that the ship would be doing some light maneuvers although they wouldn't be doing anything drastic enough this morning for any of us to feel or notice. We were to be seated in the corridors anyway. In case of a real emergency involving pirates, the maneuvering would cause possible heeling and we could be slung around so it was mandatory that we were sitting on the floor in a reinforced hallway to protect us from possible gunfire penetration.
We had a little more excitement that night. The entire world has been watching the story unfold of the search for the missing Malaysian plane that went down over a week ago. The captain announced that several passengers had asked if we were involved in the search and he reported to us that yes, since we were in the circle of area being searched we had been asked to participate. The sonar on our ship is very advanced and two officers specializing in the use of this sonar have been assigned full-time to monitor the equipment to aid in this search.
Our sonar detected an item in the ocean and our ship was being diverted to change course slightly to see if we could identify it. It turned out to be a large buoy which had been attached somewhere near a port but had broken loose and floated out to open sea in the Indian Ocean. It was not believed to have anything to do with the missing Malaysian plane.
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