I have just been party to the strangest muster drill ever. As you would imagine, after the Concordia accident Costa are keen to show that they are better prepared in the event of an emergency. Well because this sort of itinerary allows passengers to embark and disembark at several stops, not everyone does the drill at the same time. Today we had around 20 or so English speaking passengers watching a 15 minute film in one of the lounges which was actually very good along with about 60 Japanese passengers of which none appeared to understand what was being said. No re run in their own language either. After the film we given a demonstration on how to put on a life jacket, again only in English, then with jackets on we were shown the position of the actual muster station. End of drill! Just very odd!
We are now underway and have just watched the pilot get off.
Civitavecchia Pilot Boat
Civitavecchia Pilot back on his boat
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