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May 16-17, 2002
Vessel Data
Status: Enroute, Papeete, Tahiti to Auckland, New Zealand
Latitude: 35-27.0’S
Longitude: 178-13.0’W
Total Distance: 2221.3 miles
Gone: 2025.7 miles
24 Hr. Dist.: 275 miles
To Go: 196.1 miles
Current Speed: 11.0 kts.
Engine Setting: 72 RPM’s Port engine
Weather:
 Air Temperature: 60.1°F
Humidity: 89%
Wind: E 23 Knots
Clouds: Cloudy
Sea Temperature: 66°F
Currents: easy 130°
Water Depth: 2857 Meters
Sunrise: 0648
Sunset: 1717
Aboard the TSGB
Thursday Day 25-26
Daily Log:
Today was drill day. We are experimenting a little in this edition with a couple of sound bites. The first one is just the sound of the vessel’s whistle calling the crew to their emergency stations.
The second is a partial radio conversation from our “Fire Captain” Dan Weinstock as we respond to
the drill situation. Hopefully you will hear them by just clicking on the little speaker icon.
 The scenario for today’s drill was a simulated fire in the Auxiliary Machinery Room (AMR) where a lot of fuel valves are located.
As part of the role-playing, one of our emergency squads simulates cooling of a bulkhead watertight door (WTD) on the other side of the fire.
After ventilation and fuel valves located in this compartment on fire are remotely closed from our fire control room…
 Aqueous film forming foam, known as “A” triple “F”, is pumped into the AMR bilges from our remote AFFF room to smother any
burning liquid that has accumulated there.
As the scenario plays out, these measures have failed to extinguish the simulated fire, so the Captain authorizes the release of halon to the compartment. This
Halongenated gas is designed to smother the fire by breaking the chemical chain of the fire triangle. We then simulated a failure of the remote release system of this
fixed which required the crew to rush to the halon room to simulate release the system manually.
Meanwhile, the ambulance squad was rescuing a simulated casualty and transporting him to the sick
bay while other support groups practice on fire hoses. Engineering Officer Chris Yuhas, the Officer in charge of Repair Party Two, is seen here with a radio.
Once again, the GOLDEN BEAR was saved from impending catastrophe by the skill and daring of the crew.
 Later in the evening, the ship’s physician Doctor Benedict, instructs a group of eager students on the proper method
in performing emergency suturing for minor trauma.
The students are practicing their “surgeon’s knot” on; you guessed it, pig’s feet. The Doc always loads these in the freeze box before we sail so he can put on this popular
seminar. The next day we dined on pig’s knuckles with built in dental floss – just kidding. Captain
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