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We took on water from a boat while at anchor. It is available in Manaus, and I suspect Santarem as well.

As noted in the other thread, it is up to the IMO to determine whether the e-muster stays or goes, and the "lack of attention" is not going to be their primary concern.

However it is presented, the e-muster format is only conditionally approved by the IMO, who will decide whether to permanently approve the e-muster or return to the old format.

The majority of the water on the ship is "filtered" far more than what you do at home. It comes from three sources, some comes from a "flash evaporator" that makes distilled water from sea water (so that is "purer" than your filtered water), some comes from Reverse Osmosis watermakers that make fresh water from sea water, and RO does a better job of filtering than a carbon filter, and finally, some water comes from shore, but this is limited due to cost.

It's not the muddy river that precludes making water, but the fact that the ship must be at least 12 miles from shore to make water. So, once in the river, they cannot make any more water. Whether or not the ship did take on water at the ports, it is available, as I spent a month at Manaus on a tanker, and we routinely took shore water. I doubt that the laundry was reopened, as the cruise ended in the restricted water use time frame.

Can he not drink tap water? All water on the ship is tested and approved for drinking. Fill up a glass or tumbler any time he wants. For the shakes, you should contact NCL's "Special Needs" department to get permission to bring them.

The 2022 docking for the hull repair didn't reset the statutory clock on dry dockings. Escape will be due in late 2025.

That's correct, Andy, there are no outstanding conditions of class for the Polaris. One of the notations on the condition from the rogue wave incident was to ensure emergency routes are maintained, so I would guess that those living in the adjacent cabins to those damaged, see some plywood along the passageway, to keep them from harm in the damaged areas.

Blount folded.

While further from NYC or Boston than say the ABC islands, but closer than Southampton (even Cork would be closer), Nuuk in Greenland is a more logical "distant" port. Even though Greenland is geographically considered part of North America, it is considered as "distant" ports, which is how the Northwest Passage cruises were allowed from Alaska to NY.

Not sure what the question is here, but, yes the davit is tested to 55 mt, if the rating is 50 mt. And, because you are theoretically exceeding the rating, you only do this once (when it really matters). Another factor is if the people weigh much more than the "standard", then you physically can't fit the whole capacity into the boat. I know that many years ago, when working on an offshore drilling platform, we decided to see if we could get the rated capacity of an enclosed boat, using "typical" oil field workers, wearing immersion suits. Replicating a "clown car" in stuffing guys into the boat, we managed to get 56 in a 65 man boat. However, the rig was required to have 200% capacity in boats.

The lifeboats are not rated on weight limits for sinking. The number of people allowed in a boat is determined by volume, not weight. Even if every person in the boat was 50 lbs over the "standard weight", and the boat filled completely with water, it would not sink. The weight limits are for the lowering davits and wires, and are tested to 110% of the rated capacity, every 5 years. Also, the USCG does not set the limits for lifeboats, either volume or weight, that is set by SOLAS. When the US became signatory to SOLAS, Congress had to pass laws that took the SOLAS requirements into law.

In any scenario, the luggage will be kept either in the security area of the port, or entrusted to the ship's agent (also bonded), until the passenger notifies the cruise line of their wishes to have the luggage forwarded to them.

If you mean they don't start the spiel until everyone is checked in, that is really not the start of the drill. And, truthfully, all of the spiel they give at the muster is filler, important surely, but really filler to kill time until the evacuation search is completed. And, it does not really matter whether the search finds a straggler or not, it takes time. That is what really takes the time, not the stragglers.

The muster drill starts when the signal (7 short and one long blast) sounds, and everyone starts to the muster stations. It should not end until everyone is accounted for, since that is the purpose of the drill.

The big problem is with the pronunciation. It really isn't "pot-able", but "poe-table".

Last time I saw this was 50 years ago on a pushboat on the Mississippi River. Your cabin sink had three water taps: hot, cold, drinking. The boat had limited drinking water capacity, so you only brushed your teeth with this. The hot and cold came directly from the river.

They use crowd and crisis management algorithms to model the evacuation. Lifeboats and rafts are tested with personnel at time of approval for the type of equipment. As for space requirements for muster locations, they use a "standard sized" individual, and see how many they can cram in, and still allow for foot traffic. As with lifeboats, where the "standard" person is 82.5kg (181 lbs), this does not reflect today's US passengers.

Ships that have outdoor muster stations will never move them indoors, since the SOLAS requirement is to have the muster station "as close as practicable" to the boats. If there was room before to muster outdoors, there will always be room to muster outdoors, until the ship is scrapped.

Quite right. But, compared to the basic "septic tank" that most ships have, it is quite advanced. Better than even most municipal waste treatment systems. Would I drink the water from the AWWTP? Not if I was aware that it was. Have I drawn a glass from the sample *****? Many times. It is crystal clear, but does have a slight sulfur smell. This is because the last step in the treatment process is a UV sterilizer, that kills off any residual bacteria from the treatment process, and the last dying gasp of these bacteria is to release sulfur dioxide. Letting the vintage "breathe" for a while takes away the unpleasant aroma.

Most cruise ships have AWWTP (advanced waste water treatment plants), that take all the waste water produced on the ship, and treat it to potable standards before discharging it to sea. These system's effluent is tested monthly by third party labs.

Sky, as sister to the Sun would have outdoors (I know, I worked her), and I was on the Dawn and some of the stations were indoors but some were outdoors.

Right now, it is done more in simulation during the crew fire and boat drills, but the cabins cannot be searched (don't want to interrupt someone in the shower). The crew are losing the ability to train realistically for the passenger muster with the new e-muster format.

Well, that will surely show them where their muster station is. For that matter, why not do it at home?

All the lines that interport have "figured this out", but it does make it more difficult for the crew.