Bob the Intruder

I'm giving a couple new workers a tour of the ship today, when the following comes over the PA system:

Hear there, officer of the day speaking. The worker who came aboard with a white hard hat marked "Bob" report to the brow immediately.

We thought this was a bit odd, but didn't think much of it.  We continued on with the tour, until we heard the action alarm.

Bong bong¹…Intruder alert.  Ship's company muster flight deck.

So I escort my guys to the flight deck, where we learn that a Sea Training instructor has walked onboard, failing to show his ID card.  This brings us to a security alert situation, which in turns brings everybody else in the dockyard to security alert stations.

I ended up posted as an upper-deck sentry, so at least I got some fresh air today!  And it got us out of a couple hours work today.  This was my (and several other members') first time doing an intruder alert, so it was a changeup from the normal routine, where Sea Training will come in with a smoke machine an red glow sticks, to tell us that a fire is onboard.

I'm sure that I'll get hit with that one again soon enough.