When we were on the Carnival Paradise, I took my 84 year old Mother up to the muster station early so we could take the elevator. We were assigned to the top deck.
As the drill progressed, all the other muster station groups on the lower decks were called one group at a time to come up to the top deck to a specific lifeboat area. We could see them filing up the stairs and going to their assigned places.
I'm not sure if this is unique to Carnival or just something that happened because there was a Coast Guard inspection going on at the time. I've been to other muster drills and they didn't have every group go to the top deck.
I was thankful we were already on the top deck, so our group didn't have to go anywhere, we just had to sit and wait.
But what if we hadn't been assigned there and we had to climb up several flights of stairs as part of the drill? My Mother would not have been able to do it.
We are booked on the Radiance of the Sea in May and I'm hoping we won't have this to deal with.
Has anyone ever experienced this with a disabled person?
Muster Drill for Disabled Passenger
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When we were on the Carnival Paradise, I took my 84 year old Mother up to the muster station early so we could take the elevator. We were assigned to the top deck.
As the drill progressed, all the other muster station groups on the lower decks were called one group at a time to come up to the top deck to a specific lifeboat area. We could see them filing up the stairs and going to their assigned places.
I'm not sure if this is unique to Carnival or just something that happened because there was a Coast Guard inspection going on at the time. I've been to other muster drills and they didn't have every group go to the top deck.
I was thankful we were already on the top deck, so our group didn't have to go anywhere, we just had to sit and wait.
But what if we hadn't been assigned there and we had to climb up several flights of stairs as part of the drill? My Mother would not have been able to do it.
We are booked on the Radiance of the Sea in May and I'm hoping we won't have this to deal with.
Has anyone ever experienced this with a disabled person?