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Date: August 3, 2006 Location: Latitude: 23 - 11.0 S Longitude: 075 - 21.8 W Course:338 T Speed 11.8Knots	July: 1\|2\|3\|4\|5\|6\|7\|8\|9\|10\|11\|12\|13\|14\|15\|16\|17\|18\|19\|20\|21\|22\|23\|24\|25 26\|27\|28\|29\|30\|31 August: 1\|2\|3\|4\|5\|6\|7\|8\|9\|10\|11\|12\|13\|14\|15\|16\|17\|18\|19\|20\|21\|22\|23\|24 25\|26\|27\|28\|29\|30\|31 Daily Ship's Report
	Everyone has gotten back into our at sea routine by now. Once a week we have fire and boat drill. The drills have become fairly routine and the cadets have become very proficient at their duties due to the repetiveness of them. This weeks drills had an unusual flair to them. Two Chilean Navy aircraft buzzed our ship just as we were lowering the lifeboats. It looked like a scene from a war movie. The weather has been perfect with the wind and seas behind us. The ship is riding well with just a gentle roll to make sleeping easy. Last night the skies were clear at twilight and the upper decks were full of cadets taking star sights for their celestial project. Cadets Ross Macmurdo, Christopher Holley, John Edwards, and Malcolm Boucher were among those "shooting stars". Deck Training has been interesting this week with the senior cadets MD Alam, John Lashley, Nail Kennedy, and Brandon Bagley getting a refresher course in the use of Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA). The cadets have to don the SCBA and operate "on air" during a walk about the ship. An additional part of the training with the SCBA is to operate in a smoke filled environment. To simulate a smoke filled environment, the lens of the mask is taped over so that the cadets can't see. Cadets Blaine Garrity, Sammy Baiamonte, Robert Cope, and Bryan English had to don their taped over masks and crawl to a space several decks away to find a "victim" using only their sense of feel and memory of how to get to the space. Because these cadets have trained so well, they rescued the "victim". Captain Jack Smith Senior Lecturer Marine Transportation Department Back to Summer Cruise Main page.