What is Alpha, Alpha, Alpha??

[island lady]

Sometimes passengers have to respond to these signals as well. At about the time this thread was originally created, I once had to respond to what they called a "Code Brown" at Adventure Ocean Aquanauts. :eek:

 

Eeeew.....!! Remember the movie Caddy Shack??? :p :p

Edited March 12, 2016 by island lady

[Lionesss]

Where I work a CODE BROWN is a missing senior citizen.

 

Just sharing.

 

Sea ya

[island lady]

Where I work a CODE BROWN is a missing senior citizen.

 

Just sharing.

 

Sea ya

 

When my sister (a doctor) visits patients at several nursing homes she calls on, Code Brown

is something a bit smelly. :eek:

[3happyferrets]

Sulu, AKA George Takei, is a cruiser. He has been the star guest on several Star Trek theme cruises (cruisetrek dot com). On the earlier cruises (Charlie has been doing these for at least 15 years), George brought his mom. I heard she was a hoot! Would have loved to meet her.

 

 

Omg, I think you might have just changed the future of my vacations!! I would do one of those in a heartbeat!

 

 

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[DrD]

I suspect it's more to dissuade curiosity, I mean, who would really "panic" if there was a medical emergency?

 

same as at hospital, no one would panic if a patient was dying, but we don't want curious visitors to come watch the resuscitation efforts. So we call code blue.

 

What I want to know is if a family member dies, do you HAVE to get off? Can't you finish the cruise? I mean what's the difference?

[3happyferrets]

I suspect it's more to dissuade curiosity, I mean, who would really "panic" if there was a medical emergency?

 

 

 

same as at hospital, no one would panic if a patient was dying, but we don't want curious visitors to come watch the resuscitation efforts. So we call code blue.

 

 

 

What I want to know is if a family member dies, do you HAVE to get off? Can't you finish the cruise? I mean what's the difference?

 

 

I can't tell if you're serious or not. I see your name says Doctor and you speak of codes as if you've participated, so I would think as such then you would understand how some people are devastated when they lose their loved one. So I suppose you could party on, but most people would not want to. Let us all hope the situation is never something any of us has to deal with.

 

 

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[DrD]

I can't tell if you're serious or not. I see your name says Doctor and you speak of codes as if you've participated, so I would think as such then you would understand how some people are devastated when they lose their loved one. So I suppose you could party on, but most people would not want to. Let us all hope the situation is never something any of us has to deal with.

 

 

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Yes of course I was joking, sorry.

 

although I am a bit curious to know if it's an actual rule. I could imagine SOME circumstances (unhappy marriage?) where the survivor may not be too happy about having to cut the trip short.

[chengkp75]

Yes of course I was joking, sorry.

 

although I am a bit curious to know if it's an actual rule. I could imagine SOME circumstances (unhappy marriage?) where the survivor may not be too happy about having to cut the trip short.

 

Someone has to escort the remains.

[S&S Cruisers 1983]

On Rhapsody last Aug along with bravo, bravo, bravo and the location at between 12 and 1.30 am all the lights flashed on and off (including in our cabin). I was terrified- phoned to wake my girls (22yr and 18yr) in their cabin down the hall and made Dh go get them and bring

them to our cabin (with life jackets in hand)- they and DH wanted to kill me saying no way was it fire- but I had read the codes on here- 2hrs later the caption came on loud speaker to say we had a fire in the galley area - (later I heard that it was dishwasher that had caused it) and it was now out and all crew could stand down. Family amazed I knew ;) - Yes I know collecting the girls and life jacket thing was over kill- but I do the same again lol

 

Overkill? I would have done the same thing!

[sblair]

Kilo Kilo Kilo is indeed a pre-cursor to an abandon ship level emergency. It signals all the crew to go to their posts and muster stations and put on their life vests. We had a drill for it on Solstice this week.

[tommoore1]

Kilo Kilo Kilo is indeed a pre-cursor to an abandon ship level emergency. It signals all the crew to go to their posts and muster stations and put on their life vests. We had a drill for it on Solstice this week.

 

 

 

Thank you! That's kinda what I thought it was.

 

 

 

[navybankerteacher]

Someone has to escort the remains.

 

Right, but it's not as though the remains are in any hurry to get anywhere, is it ?

[donaldsc]

Did you try typing "alpha alpha alpha cruise" into Google?

 

DON

[fishywood]

Did you try typing "alpha alpha alpha cruise" into Google?

 

DON

Helpful advice for the 10.5 year old original post.

[chengkp75]

Kilo Kilo Kilo is indeed a pre-cursor to an abandon ship level emergency. It signals all the crew to go to their posts and muster stations and put on their life vests. We had a drill for it on Solstice this week.

 

That will depend on the individual cruise line. This may apply to Celebrity, but it is not in any way universal, and may be for drill purposes only. I've frankly never heard of "kilo kilo kilo", nor a "pre-cursor" to an abandon ship alarm. Generally, the signal that cruisers identify with "abandon ship" (the seven short blasts and one long blast on ship's whistle and bells) is actually the signal for "fire and general emergency" at which time all crew are to report to their emergency stations and the passengers muster in their muster locations. Subsequently, if the Captain decides it is necessary, he will order the boats loaded and launched, but this is not the cue for the crew to abandon ship. The crew, with the exception of the few assigned to crew the lifeboats, will remain at their emergency stations until all passengers have been evacuated, and then, again, if the Captain feels it is necessary, he will signal "abandon ship" by one long prolonged blast on the ship's whistle and bells, and the crew will move from their emergency stations to their abandon ship stations and take to the life rafts.

[sfaaa]

Bravo x 3 actually means Bing Bong, iiiiiiit's Bingo time.

[gooch47]

I think I remember a "D" code, maybe Delta, that we were told about on a behind the scenes tour on an NCL ship. It meant there had been physical damage to the ship.

[OzKiwiJJ]

Helpful advice for the 10.5 year old original post.

 

:rolleyes:But I can't resist adding to this one.

 

So the further you go in the alphabet, the worse it gets?

 

So what does Zulu Zulu Zulu mean? :D

 

"We've run out of booze!"

 

Not quite, it means we've run out of booze AND the passengers are revolting. :D

[GUT2407]

Heard it a lot last cruise, but then with an average age well into the 70s over five weeks I guess it's to be expected.

 

Met by ambulances at every port, and were told they had eight deaths (and that was at the four week mark).

[GUT2407]

 

 

 

 

Not quite, it means we've run out of booze AND the passengers are revolting. :D

 

Must be a ship full of Aussies if they've ran out of booze AND the passengers are revolting.

[donaldsc]

Helpful advice for the 10.5 year old original post.

 

Missed that. CC needs to deactivate old posts so that idiots do do things like restart a 10 year old post.

 

If you have ever been on TripAdvisor, you will see that if there is no action on a thread for a while, it gets locked down. The thread is still there but you can't respond to it.

 

If TripAdvisor can do it, why not CC?

 

DON

[donaldsc]

 

Whilst on a bridge tour on the Serenade last week we heard the call "KILO, KILO, KILO", but no one would tell us what it meant.

The security officer only said that it was a drill for a new code--anyone out there hear about this one?

 

 

 

The date of the original post on this thread was Oct 2005. That is more than 10 years ago. Is there any reason that you can possible think of that you had to reopen a 10 years old thread. Nobody else on this new thread has any idea at all why you did it?

 

DON

[GUT2407]

The date of the original post on this thread was Oct 2005. That is more than 10 years ago. Is there any reason that you can possible think of that you had to reopen a 10 years old thread. Nobody else on this new thread has any idea at all why you did it?

 

DON

 

Because if they just started a new thread some one would have said

 

Why didn't you search before you started a new thread?

 

 

Just can't please all the people.

 

What harm is there in reviving an old thread anyway, so long as it's on topic?

[Langley Cruisers]

Missed that. CC needs to deactivate old posts so that idiots do do things like restart a 10 year old post.

 

Idiots?? Wow.

 

The date of the original post on this thread was Oct 2005. That is more than 10 years ago. Is there any reason that you can possible think of that you had to reopen a 10 years old thread.

 

Don, don't lash out because you missed the date on the thread. I saw it. The date is the first thing I look at before replying.

[sblair]

That will depend on the individual cruise line. This may apply to Celebrity, but it is not in any way universal, and may be for drill purposes only. I've frankly never heard of "kilo kilo kilo", nor a "pre-cursor" to an abandon ship alarm. Generally, the signal that cruisers identify with "abandon ship" (the seven short blasts and one long blast on ship's whistle and bells) is actually the signal for "fire and general emergency" at which time all crew are to report to their emergency stations and the passengers muster in their muster locations. Subsequently, if the Captain decides it is necessary, he will order the boats loaded and launched, but this is not the cue for the crew to abandon ship. The crew, with the exception of the few assigned to crew the lifeboats, will remain at their emergency stations until all passengers have been evacuated, and then, again, if the Captain feels it is necessary, he will signal "abandon ship" by one long prolonged blast on the ship's whistle and bells, and the crew will move from their emergency stations to their abandon ship stations and take to the life rafts.

 

Obviously things change. I got this from one of the senior staff and it matched with what I observed in the drill that day. The drill appeared to be recreating crash in Ketchikan as it was 2 days after it and we were in the same port. It started with a Bravo Bravo Bravo Deck 3 forward stores and a couple minutes later there was a Kilo Kilo Kilo. Crew members were all assembling to posts wearing life preservers. A couple minutes later the internal ship alarm was sounded for passengers to go to muster stations. The logic of it as the staff member explained was to give the chance for crew members to get to their stations to be ready to handle the passengers as they arrived. As it was explained, it means something very serious has occurred that could quickly escalate to something more severe. Otherwise with everyone getting the notification at the same time it creates more chaos as the crew isn't all in positions yet to direct passengers. Frankly, it makes sense. There have been a number of changes that were learned out of the Concordia disaster, this may be another one of them. While it may not be common to all cruiselines yet, I'm sure it is SOP for all RCI family ships now.