Location: 50° 48.5’ N, 9° 54.2’ W
Weather: Scattered Showers       Wind: 20 kts W       Seas: Moderate Swell
Alpha: Training        Bravo: Maintenance           Charlie: Utility        Delta: Watch

Despite several days of rougher seas and gradually cooling weather, morale remains high as we are due in Cobh, Ireland, our first international port tomorrow morning. We will spend four days in port, with each company receiving in-depth hands on training at the National Maritime College of Ireland, including the opportunity to ride in a free-fall lifeboat.  Shipboard training is going as scheduled, with deck training providing the freshmen with a refresher on knot tying and line handling, and the engine side providing them with an overview of turbines and steering gear, as well as with some hands-on experience drilling and tapping holes in steel, and disassembling a gate valve to learn how it works.

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