This morning we had a divisional safety meeting. I'm in the cruise division which includes performers, musicians and cruise staff; essentially everyone involved with entertaining the guests. The cruise director went over some safety issues that he was aware of and then people could voice any safety concerns that they had. The cruise director as read us some comments from guests that concern our division.
Following the meeting the ship held a Charlie drill, which is a security threat to the ship. This could be a bomb, stowaway, etc. This drill began because a bomb threat was called in to guest services. There are different stages of the drill and people are assigned different duties according to their emergency number. In the first stage I search the areas I'm familiar with, as it is easier to locate something that is out of place in an area that you often work in. After I've searched the broadcast area, I report back to the cruise director. After stage one nothing was found, so we moved to stage two. During stage two we found a suspicious object in the Tropical Theater so we had to evacuate the theater and the response teams and local authorities (Barbados) came in to investigate. It turned out to be a false alarm. I'm not sure where the object was found, but the entire drill lasted about 2 hours.
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