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I was awakened at around 4 am to this horn being blasted off every 10 minutes or so. I laid in bed trying to figure if that was the three long blast to signal man overboard? No, the blasts weren’t that long and there was definitely more than three. Were they the 6 short blast and 1 long of abandon ship? Not sure how many there were since I keep falling back asleep. Decide, possibly irresponsibly, that if it were an actual problem that they’d make an announcement over the intercom, and with that I tried to go back to sleep. Though I had resolved to go back to every time I just drifted off the horn blasted off again. It continued that throughout the rest of the night. Least I knew it wasn’t an emergency.
Turns out it was the fog horn. There was poor visibility so they had to rely on the use of sound as a way of informing anyone in the vicinity of our presence and to try and listen out for their potential position. Sure it is the tried and tested technique in fog…just wish there was a quieter way to doing it. Because it’s supposed to be foggy again tonight. Please do your thing earplugs….I need some sleep.
