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Re: Easing The Pain Of Fire Drills

John — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:10:54 -0000

I also suggest you post the question on our forum, we even have a section just for cadets: http://gcaptain.com/forum/f...

Re: Easing The Pain Of Fire Drills

John — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:10:07 -0000

That is a rather broad question but the basics are:
*Building a Team that works well together takes time and is critically important
*The time to learn is now, when the bells start ringing it's too late
*With frequent changes of crew and long periods off it's important that everyone is refreshed on training
*If it's not done regularly then it's difficult to build on the lessons of previous drills
*To many more to list ;)

Re: Easing The Pain Of Fire Drills

zee — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:51:21 -0000

intersting article.. i'm a new cadet. haven really participate or saw a real fire drill on board ship. but my course lecturers requires me to state the importance of regular fire drills & training. how should i answer at best? what are the points or reasons to take note?

Re: Easing The Pain Of Fire Drills

Ben @ Trees Full of Money — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:26:08 -0000

Just got my last fire drill out of the way for this hitch! YA!!!!!!!!!

Good article! I'm guilty of being a "great job guy" when I'm debriefing the crew, even when the performance was less than spectacular!

Something I need to work on, I can't be everyone's friend when lives are at stake!

Re: Easing The Pain Of Fire Drills

John — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:17:35 -0000

You know I was making waffles yesterday and they tasted kinda funny so my wife opens up the cupboard, finds the "Make It Yourself" play-Doh flour misaligned and quickly deduces the source of the taste. They may all look alike (flours and fires) to the untrained eye but don't assume they're all the same!

(True Story)

Re: Easing The Pain Of Fire Drills

~Artful Note~ — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:06:19 -0000

Dper,
No offense to John, but I think I was briefing fire drills when he was realizing that the different colors of Pla-Doh didn't mean different flavors.

Re: Easing The Pain Of Fire Drills

GrumpySeaman — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:52:16 -0000

” After the debrief, give them a Satisfactory, Marginally Satisfactory, or Unsatisfactory" I always thought the "Great job guys" routine was stupid. Tell me how I'm doing, don't be a "nice guy" I'll thank ya.

Re: Easing The Pain Of Fire Drills

DPer — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:39:25 -0000

Sounds like you've been to one of John's meetings ;)

Re: Easing The Pain Of Fire Drills

trevor dunnington — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:10:12 -0000

Very interesting Artful. Just for info, the Royal Navy have just selected the Colt4 smoke system for on board fire and emergency simulations on board its entire fleet. This unit has the ability to make smoke off power once pre-heated, so it can be carried from one compartment to another making safe, artificial smoke as it goes without a trailing lead - http://www.concept-smoke.co...

Re: Easing The Pain Of Fire Drills

Devon — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:30:09 -0000

Great tips. Some of the new video cameras are hard drive or flash based, some even record direct to dvd. Nice and easy for recording the drills.