Crew still does emergency training. If you stay on ship during port days, you'll hear the announcements and see some of the drills. Not a cruise we're on that we don't see emergency training. Plus they get training at the start of each contract.
1) shows Private Sales really do offer lower fares only to the people who receive them
2) you don't have to book from a private sale, just be sure as @Mary229 mentioned that your TA is using your credentials when pricing or they won't be able to give you accurate pricing.
I know this response is a bit late, but I just saw this thread.
Since you have a TA, they would have sent you the email, not HAL. HAL sends TA the email and they forward to you. Perhaps that's how your TA learned of the cancelation and called you instead of sending you the email.
Hey @Saint Greg Carnival Behind the Fun Tour visits all those places; Sept on Venezia, we went to 2 gallies. Our tour ended backstage in the theater during rehearsal.
Well, at least that little math exercise showcases getting the same result when working through a problem in different ways. 🤔
Or Big Picture how following different paths can still lead to the same location.😏