The man – a 32 year old went overboard on 8th January after falling from cruise liner MS Volendam a wonderful Holland America ship which sails the Island in February. The ship was in Lyttelton Mariner not far from Christchurch and they were performing some kind of training programme which has evidently gone wrong.
A cable on one of the lifeboats snapped and two men went into the water, one man lucky enough to find one, clung on to a bucket until he was rescued successfully and injury free by the Canterbury Coastguard. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the second man who m there is no sign of, even though they have search teams searching for him – Neither were wearing their life jackets, perhaps if they had then we would have been looking at the safe return of two men rather than the sad report of the missing man and a huge sigh of relief that the second man found that bucket!
I know like myself one muster drill feels a lot like the last and its fairly straight forward - But I honestly belief that these drills DO save lives and always discourage anyone from trying to pretend they are still in high school and playing truant – for the half an hour out of your day – It could prove beneficial – And there is usually the odd interesting or funny sight – Like when I was on the Adventure of the seas – One lady who had been hauled out of the pool to attend and was standing there on deck dripping wet!!!
Does anyone have any interesting sights to report?
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