DATE 1/15
TIME 0700 LT, 1200 GMT
LAT 17-37N
LON 75-22W
C 209
S 15K
RPM 70
DEPTH 800 METERS
WIND NE FORCE 4
SKY 6/8
PRES 1020
AIR 78/72
SEA 80
36 NM EAST OF MORANT CAYS
Sunday at sea is a tradition at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Only those
personnel assigned to essential tasks like watch standing or sanitary
maintenance have to work. Everyone else gets to sleep in, wear MMA leisure
gear, enjoy a Helo Deck cook-out - just about anything they desire. We've
been at it for two weeks now, one week out of Buzzards Bay, which isn't all
that long, but everyone will enjoy the day nonetheless.
Our satellite TV system met the challenge yesterday - as everyone was able to
watch the Patriots overcome Tebow-Time in Foxboro. We were pretty unsure
about the system, as we found ourselves coincidentally between continental
USA DTV and Caribbean DTV - which involves changing out a receiving
component, contacting the company, and getting the black boxes 'activated'.
It looked like it was going to fail on Saturday morning, but we took a chance
and changed everything on Friday - and it worked! But come yesterday
afternoon the signal was lost. Not knowing why, we speculated that Cuba's
mountains might be mixing it up. So, we speeded up the ship a little, and
made the turn at Windward Passage at a little after 1900 - once we were
steering 180 degrees- bingo, we had the signal. The 49'ers fans got to see
the final quarter, and everyone got to see the Patriot's win.
Tomorrow I'll report on the activities during the Sunday at sea.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
FTV 1/15/2012 From Cadet Buck--TheCruise Commander
On campus Jack Gomes is our Regimental Commander, and while at sea he is our Cruise Commander.
Mr. Gomes' job is to run a leadership team and help maintain structure and discipline with 1/C
Greenland, Cruise Discipline Officer.
Mr. Gomes works with ComCad as 'the middle man' while representing the cadets during department head meetings. He also helps out the business rates by teaching two of the business classes. One class is based on his Co-Op experience with General Electric. Why MMA? Mr. Gomes says the affordability and convenient location persuaded his decision since he lives in New Bedford.
What really caught his eye was the high job placement rate after graduating. When asked what he is looking forward to on cruise, without hesitation he said "Zip-lining in Costa Rica!" Mr. Gomes also wanted to say, "Being Regimental Commander back at school prepared me to be Cruise Commander. The experience has taught me how to successfully manage a team."
Mr. Gomes works with ComCad as 'the middle man' while representing the cadets during department head meetings. He also helps out the business rates by teaching two of the business classes. One class is based on his Co-Op experience with General Electric. Why MMA? Mr. Gomes says the affordability and convenient location persuaded his decision since he lives in New Bedford.
What really caught his eye was the high job placement rate after graduating. When asked what he is looking forward to on cruise, without hesitation he said "Zip-lining in Costa Rica!" Mr. Gomes also wanted to say, "Being Regimental Commander back at school prepared me to be Cruise Commander. The experience has taught me how to successfully manage a team."
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