life boat drill

[wp bob]

when is PG usually doing the lifeboat drills - just before dinner the sailing day or early the next morning before people can go ashore? I'd like to know to plan excursions.

[Meerjungfrau]

when is PG usually doing the lifeboat drills - just before dinner the sailing day or early the next morning before people can go ashore? I'd like to know to plan excursions.

 

In our information pack it says 5.30pm on the sailing day.

[Paul Gauguin Cruises]

when is PG usually doing the lifeboat drills - just before dinner the sailing day or early the next morning before people can go ashore? I'd like to know to plan excursions.

 

Greetings!

 

Below is the Muster Policy for Paul Gauguin Cruises.

 

Muster Policy

Current legal requirements for conducting a muster of passengers are found in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and mandate that a muster for embarking passengers occur within 24 hours of their embarkation. Notwithstanding the legal requirement, Paul Gauguin Cruises has identified a best practice that calls for conducting the mandatory muster for embarking passengers prior to departure from port. This muster drill will take place at 5:30 pm on embarkation day. We ask that all guests who have arrived be on board for this drill. Guests arriving after the muster has been completed will be provided with individual or group safety briefings upon embarkation that meet the requirements for musters applicable under SOLAS. This practice exceeds existing legal requirements and has been adopted to ensure that any mandatory musters or briefings are conducted for the benefit of all newly embarked passengers at the earliest practical opportunity.

 

You can also find it on our website here:

http://www.pgcruises.com/legal

 

We look forward to welcoming you on board!

[clairesmom]

FYI, we sailed on July 11, and they only did one muster drill at 9:15am on the morning after embarkation. It definitely interferred with shore excursions that first morning. All documents said the first tender would be at 8:30. They started at 9:45....

 

We boarded at 3:10Pm that first day, so we definitely did not miss it as well. :)

[Escriteur]

As long as you board early in the day on your first day of the cruise (boarding starts around 3pm), you'll be required to attend the mandatory 5:30pm muster drill. (There is a sign on the inside of your cabin door showing the location of your muster station.)

 

Some passengers may be coming in on the evening flight that day, arriving at the ship just before it departs Papeete. On our recent July 28 Society Islands sailing, those passengers were required to attend a mandatory drill the next morning. Our first port was Raiatea, and I believe the first excursions were at 1pm that day - so late-arriving passengers were able to attend the muster drill and still make any scheduled excursions.