What are the clear and colored glass cylinders hanging up in back of the room?
Those are lights—they’re the alarms. You can’t hear the sirens down here, so they flash to alert you. The red is fire, and amber is the control room. But the clear one means get out—you have ten seconds to get out of the area and go above to your muster station (in case of an ‘abandon ship’ order.) Besides the control room, there are about five rooms that make the “engine room.” What are some of the systems you deal with down here? We have generators, and the two main propulsion engines, painted yellow. There are 49 pumps on the ship, of seven different types—they all have to be maintained regularly. We have 700 miles of electrical wire, 42 filters in the fresh water purification system, and seven welding stations spaced around the engine rooms. In the workshop: lathes, worktable, drill press—so we can make just about anything we need. We have storage rooms full of spare parts for every part on the ship. How did you become a chief engineer? You work your way up. You start as an oiler f
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