{"id":6191,"date":"2026-05-08T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:05:27","slug":"day-6-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/2026-summer\/day-6-anchorage\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 | Anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This morning, the training ship departed its Portland, ME berth and traveled a few miles over to an anchorage.\u00a0 Once anchored, the ship conducted both fire and abandon ship drills with the USCG present to observe our ability to handle these emergency situations.\u00a0 Part of these drills includes raising and lowering the lifeboats (pictured below).\u00a0 Cadets got the chance to learn and handle lines during departure.\u00a0 They also assisted with the anchoring operation.\u00a0 Some lucky cadets are also taking the chance to play some Cornhole on the Helo deck during some downtime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/05\/IMG_0227-scaled-e1778270077385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6192\" src=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/05\/IMG_0227-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Lifeboat lowering\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/05\/IMG_0230-scaled-e1778270119323.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6193\" src=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/05\/IMG_0230-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Cadets Playing Cornhole\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/05\/IMG_0231-scaled-e1778270157176.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6194\" src=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/05\/IMG_0231-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Rehousing the Lifeboat\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/05\/IMG_0234-scaled-e1778270180298.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6195\" src=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/05\/IMG_0234-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Cadets posing \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 6 This morning, the training ship departed its Portland, ME berth and traveled a few miles over to an anchorage.\u00a0 Once anchored, the ship conducted both fire and abandon ship drills with the USCG present to observe our ability to handle these emergency situations.\u00a0 Part of these drills includes raising and lowering the lifeboats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/tssom-training-cruise-blog\/2026-summer\/day-6-anchorage\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":6192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-summer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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