Today is the first full workday for the 600 cadets and their
officers after reporting to the ship yesterday, they have stowed all their
gear, received their assignments and participated in an emergency training in
the pool. The 600 cadets began the task
of loading the T.S. Kennedy with the food and provisions that are needed for
the 2012 Semester at Sea Trip to Costa Rica, Ecuador, Republic of Panama and St
Thomas in the US Virgin Islands.
All day at Taylor’s Point huge trailer trucks dropped off
food supplies such as mile and boxes of cereal that were loaded onto the ship
by the cadets who worked in shifts to carry on the cases and cases of groceries
to the ships galley.
For some of the extra large crates crews of cadets on deck
coordinated with the cadets on the dock to us a crane to handle the over-sized
cargo. This hard work is part of the training that the Cadets receive as part
of their sea term experience.
Whaling ship Captains had similar problems when it came to feeding their crew.
Here's a Challenge:
Can you figure out how much food the Captain would have to bring for his voyage?
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