we toured several different spaces, made our way up to the rig floor, and when we got to the record, we went into the drill shack. that point, i was the last one into the drill shack. it was standing room only. at that point, i knew there was something going on, but i have no knowledge of what it was. i was asked by either jimmy or randy that was on that tour with us to please continue the tour without them, that they needed to stay up there. we went down and show them a few more items, went down into the pump rooms, show them the thrusters, and then went to dinner at approximately 6:30. after dinner, we had a pre scheduled meeting of all supervisors in the conference room, along with bp and trans ocean officials. that lasted until approximately 9:15. after that, i went and had a cigarette and went to my state room, took a shower, and got into bed. and after that, after the time i had just opened up my book and started reading the first sentence of a paragraph and i hea
i couldn t just pick one out, but i m going to tell you, yes, because if there s a safety meeting, i m standing in the background. ok. is that let me try it this way. did you attend any abandon ship drills specifically? let s see. that would be on sundays. that s what i heard. did you attend that? then i attended one then. you did. where was your life jacket? in my room. ok. and did you board the life capsule? no, not during the drill. all right. the muster, do you feel that the muster went calmly and effectively? there, there is not a way that you re going to be able to effectively take a muster onboard during the incident. it was attempted, and then once the lifeboats were all manned, doors closed, we attempted to take another muster, but it s pitch black at that time and it s still so loud you can t hear yourself think let alone communicate with the man next to you. so what they did in to resolve that problem, as soon as we were offloaded, ont