Lifejackets

My first project after the crew left was to visit every nook and cranny on the ship and find every single lifejacket onboard. I then took them up to the International Lounge and covered about half the Lounge with them, therefore creating Lifejacket Summit. Then I had to wrap them all up properly (reflecting tape and lights on the outside, whistles in their pockets, strings through the loops) and group them according to the expiration dates on the lights. It was at that point that I suggested that all incoming crew be given a training class on how to wrap lifejackets. Impressively, only 3 lights were already expired, thanks to our hard-working Safety Officers. Kathy and I grouped them on tables in the forward dining room, using almost every table, stacking the lifejackets 6 high, creating Lifejacket Canyon. A few days later Jamie made a chute out of a tarp from Promenade Deck down to the dock, and we threw the lifejackets down (in groupings according to expiration dates, of course), stacked them on pallets and shrink-wrapped them. It was almost painful to watch all of the whistles that I had so carefully placed in their pockets come free as they were tossed down the chute. That afternoon we put the pallets into the cargo hold.

In the end we counted something like 250 lifejackets onboard. The only ones we found after the proces was over were the 2 in Reception - my old workplace and one of the most frequented places for the caretakers, go figure!