Lifeboat question

[dclpluto]

Also remember I'm sure lots of people will be throwing up. Expecially if has no air conditioning. Better to be on a cramp lifeboat with throw up everywhere than being on a sinking ship. Most likely it will only be for a couple of hours if that.
Also people will be peeing and pooping themselves. You got to go you got to go.
Only so long that you can hold it.

 

[Napoleon Dynamite]

This is the "label" on one of the liferaft canisters on the Dream in December 2015. It says persons 39.

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Yup, I never noticed those until we had our muster drill in the Walt Disney Theater one year. I asked where our boat was, and they said in the canister on the deck.

 

[phinz]

Not the best, but can you see the slightly smaller 'lifeboat'?

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I found this picture of the little guy on lemoncat1's Flickr:

 

[RedSox68]

Also remember I'm sure lots of people will be throwing up. Expecially if has no air conditioning. Better to be on a cramp lifeboat with throw up everywhere than being on a sinking ship. Most likely it will only be for a couple of hours if that.
Also people will be peeing and pooping themselves. You got to go you got to go.
Only so long that you can hold it.

Now THOSE are scenarios they don't show in movies!

 

[Capt_BJ]

Yup, I never noticed those until we had our muster drill in the Walt Disney Theater one year. I asked where our boat was, and they said in the canister on the deck.

IMPOSSIBLE ... I've seen several folks say that the rafts are for CREW .......

hint ... if on Mag' or Wonder, if your muster station is not AT a boat ... guess what!?!?

SOLAS allows for rafts for pass' .....

 

[Heatherdbby]

Just looking at those pictures makes my stomach clench and knot. Knock on wood we never find ourselves in one.
The boats aren't like open right? I haven't ever cruised before, do I have to be worried about my (toddler) son darting into a life boat while we are walking on the deck?

 

[bbel]

Just looking at those pictures makes my stomach clench and knot. Knock on wood we never find ourselves in one.
The boats aren't like open right? I haven't ever cruised before, do I have to be worried about my (toddler) son darting into a life boat while we are walking on the deck?

They're above your head so unless he can fly....

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Just looking at those pictures makes my stomach clench and knot. Knock on wood we never find ourselves in one.
The boats aren't like open right? I haven't ever cruised before, do I have to be worried about my (toddler) son darting into a life boat while we are walking on the deck?

Right, they are pretty much enclosed:


They usually have one of them down at rail level and open during the muster drill and people can see in once the drill is over. But usually, they are hanging above the deck:

 

[bbel]

IMPOSSIBLE ... I've seen several folks say that the rafts are for CREW .......

hint ... if on Mag' or Wonder, if your muster station is not AT a boat ... guess what!?!?

SOLAS allows for rafts for pass' .....

At DCL all guests are assigned to a lifeBOAT, even if your station is inside.
The only way guests would end up in a raft is if for some reason they can't launch a lifeboat(s)

The majority of crew are assigned to liferafts.

 

[Capt_BJ]

another non believer

 

[bbel]

another non believer

Who? Me?

Yeah, because I'm not the one whose sat through disneys safety classes 10+ times.

But sure. Whatever makes you happy...

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Who? Me?

Yeah, because I'm not the one whose sat through disneys safety classes 10+ times.

But sure. Whatever makes you happy...

When we mustered in the Walt Disney Theater (on the Magic)we were told, in the event of a real "abandon ship" we would be walked to our lifeboat, and that it was one of the canister things in front of the "real" lifeboats.. Yes, they said "boat", but I think is was just for making it easier for everyone to understand. I know a life"raft" and a life"boat" are different. But non-seagoing people call them all lifeboats.

 

[Capt_BJ]

Who? Me?

Yeah, because I'm not the one whose sat through disneys safety classes 10+ times.

Who ME? huh?????

30 plus years of USCG experience ...... and many Disney cruises .... and sit down time with the Master(s) ...... I know how to read the signs .... and know what they mean .... that was my job.


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When we mustered in the Walt Disney Theater (on the Magic)we were told, in the event of a real "abandon ship" we would be walked to our lifeboat, and that it was one of the canister things in front of the "real" lifeboats.. Yes, they said "boat", but I think is was just for making it easier for everyone to understand. I know a life"raft" and a life"boat" are different. But non-seagoing people call them all lifeboats.
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hmmmmmmmmm

 

[bbel]

Who? Me?

Yeah, because I'm not the one whose sat through disneys safety classes 10+ times.

Who ME? huh?????

30 plus years of USCG experience ...... and many Disney cruises .... and sit down time with the Master(s) ...... I know how to read the signs .... and know what they mean .... that was my job.


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"
When we mustered in the Walt Disney Theater (on the Magic)we were told, in the event of a real "abandon ship" we would be walked to our lifeboat, and that it was one of the canister things in front of the "real" lifeboats.. Yes, they said "boat", but I think is was just for making it easier for everyone to understand. I know a life"raft" and a life"boat" are different. But non-seagoing people call them all lifeboats.
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hmmmmmmmmm

Like I said. Whatever makes you happy.

 

[RedSox68]

I would also think that if you are somewhere on the ship and can't get to your muster station (for some reason), you would be put in whatever raft is closest

 

[Heatherdbby]

I'm getting sea sick and I'm not even on the cruise yet >.<

 

[RedSox68]

I'm getting sea sick and I'm not even on the cruise yet >.<

The chances are anything happening that desperate are so slim it's not necessary to worry. Even when Royal Caribbean, Carnival and NCL have had ship problems and even small fires and water leaks, they never put people in lifeboats. They may have been stranded for a few days on a nasty ship with sewage, but they weren't put out in lifeboats LOL

 

[Neptune's Fork]

I would think that putting people in lifeboats is an in a last resort type thing, as in, the ship is going down.

 

[Dug720]

Besides the odds of having to use them being extremely rare, post-Titanic (the actual one timeframe - not post-movie) they are required to have enough lifeboat spaces for every soul on board.

 

[Dug720]

Sorry. Stupid subway connection