Next visit on the Agenda today was to the Sea Safety Training School where Mark the instructor showed us a presentation of what is done at the Centre. Here they take recruits and officers through several disaster style scenes. These include fire fighting and how to control various types of fires in different locations and also how to save a ship from sinking by using whatever is available to stem the inward flow of water..including your own body.
If you are lucky enough to survive that then they take you out and drop you in the harbour and leave you to survive on life rafts.
This centre processes some 2400 personnel every year so the NZ Navy are a capable responsive entity.
Our thanks to Mark for showing us around.