We have two fire drills today, one in the morning around 10:30 and one at around 13:45. The first one was a practice; the second one was the real drill for the ship inspection. The crew built a scenario that one of the scientists became unconscious in the aft laboratory during the second fire drill. Everyone was nervous when one of us was missing. Fortunately, the drill went on smoothly and the inspector gave the ship a pass. However, due to the drill everyone was scrambling to make sure that all the solvent inventories were up to date and thanks to solvent coordinator, Amanda Chaulk, everything was up to specs. Not to speak that all research work has to be reorganised so that nobody was running a sample during the drill. I managed to fit in a field blank and took the first air sample for the INCATPA program. The ship has been rocking really badly today. They have not managed to retrieve the mooring yet.
Firedrill - on board enclosed lifesaving boat [from left Hayley Hung (Environment Canada), Vincent Ho (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra), Robin Gislason (profile, SOB), Evgeniya Yar (profile, SOB), Scot Nickels (ITK)]