One o’clock the following ship sailed from Båly harbour – on board were twenty-five crew members dressed in rescue suits. These suits are waterproof and used by the crew on board the Sea Stallion during high seas. With the suit on, a person overboard can survive for several hours.
Todays drill concentrated on the rescue procedures linked to the following ship – if case of shipwreck, ’Cable One’ trained picking up crew members on open sea.
From the water to the coffe-table
3-4 crew members teamed up and jumped overboard from the aft of ’Cable One’. When the last one hit water, the following ship placed itself a few hundred metres from the crew and to rubber dinghies was lowered down to pick them up.
At ’Cable One’ the crew members jumped into a net and crawled, by using a rope in the barsket, towards the deck they just left.
In all the drill took 15-20 minutes and then all crew members were safely back on ’Cable One’. And the mood amongst the crew members quickly improved even more, when the cook from ’Cable One’ served coffe and freshly baked cake.
