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The Last Suffering Ship Reflection
Dustin Teuton
PHL/251
AUG 25, 2014
Robert DuBose

The Last Suffering Ship Reflection

The illness has taken its first life and people are starting to panic. By this point the crew has done all they can do to get the repairs done pushing them self to exhaustion. The nurses and helpers are tenting to all the patients and distributing the vaccine as fast as possible and to the right patients. I believe the way they are only giving half doses out and waiting to see who doesn’t show signs of getting better before giving the full dose is working and an affective way to calm more people down. I would try and isolate patients from non-sick passengers as much as possible to help prevent spread. For ship security most cruise lines or any kind of passenger ship should and would have a security team even if its trained crewmembers. They would also have a brig on board the ship for any type of crime that was committed, so in the case of the passengers who are starting to get edgy and wild trying to find the medication on there own and attacking crew members, I would have the security team deal with them in a manner that is stern but professional to show the rest of the passengers that in this case acting like a mad man and attacking crew to find the medication is going to land you a chance card straight to the brig. The captain should be updated by the doc every so often by a runner just to know what is going on with the illness. His main concern should be getting his ship in a condition to get them back to land as soon as he possibly can. Or at least close enough to get a helicopter on board to start removing passengers. The engine room shouldn’t be worried about fixing the engine good enough them back to land but just a quick fix that can get them in range of air support and possibly a tug boat if possible. The crew as a whole should show care for the passengers but at the same time they are in charge of that ship and are at

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