Rare shof515 Posted September 7, 2023 #26 Share Posted September 7, 2023 6 hours ago, Coastalbreezes said: You also have to watch the video on your cabin TV before you can change the channels. you dont really have to watch it at all..just let it play in the background while you do other things like unpack, etc 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare graphicguy Posted September 7, 2023 #27 Share Posted September 7, 2023 I believe they keep sending them out until they have a record of all guests having viewed it. I'm sure it's a blanket, batch message that dies not differentiate between who has and who hasn't viewed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb Nahoumi Posted September 7, 2023 #28 Share Posted September 7, 2023 I remember having to stand on a crowded open deck, and watch a crewmember go through the motions of putting on a life vest. He wouldn't begin his demonstration until all the passengers assigned to our section were present and accounted for. In later times, we did the muster call in the theater or a restaurant. This was somewhat better, because we could sit. Yeah, Once or twice to watch the video at home should be enough. Life vests used to be stored in the cabin closet. We didn't find any there on our last cruise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesea777 Posted September 7, 2023 #29 Share Posted September 7, 2023 16 minutes ago, Barb Nahoumi said: I remember having to stand on a crowded open deck, and watch a crewmember go through the motions of putting on a life vest. He wouldn't begin his demonstration until all the passengers assigned to our section were present and accounted for. In later times, we did the muster call in the theater or a restaurant. This was somewhat better, because we could sit. Yeah, Once or twice to watch the video at home should be enough. Life vests used to be stored in the cabin closet. We didn't find any there on our last cruise. Try under the beds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare eileeshb Posted September 7, 2023 #30 Share Posted September 7, 2023 Oh boy… this brings back memories of one of my customers getting one particular e-mail from me every hour for about 2 days straight because one of the mail servers had gone down while it was transiting through so when the server came back up it kept sending that one e-mail over and over again. Our IT guys had some fun tracking that down .. I was based in an Ireland office my customer was in Germany but everything got routed through a couple of servers in the USA on the west coast so the time zone difference did not help matters in getting it resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare eileeshb Posted September 7, 2023 #31 Share Posted September 7, 2023 25 minutes ago, Barb Nahoumi said: I remember having to stand on a crowded open deck, and watch a crewmember go through the motions of putting on a life vest. He wouldn't begin his demonstration until all the passengers assigned to our section were present and accounted for. In later times, we did the muster call in the theater or a restaurant. This was somewhat better, because we could sit. Yeah, Once or twice to watch the video at home should be enough. Life vests used to be stored in the cabin closet. We didn't find any there on our last cruise. Try under the bed…. On my first cruise I never found them but discovered them in a basket under the bed when I was stashing my suitcase on my next one. It didn’t help that the steward tended to put the throw pillows into the basket on top of the life jacket. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coastalbreezes Posted September 8, 2023 #32 Share Posted September 8, 2023 16 hours ago, ChiefMateJRK said: You don't have to watch it. Very true. You just can't change channels until it plays out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb2367 Posted September 8, 2023 #33 Share Posted September 8, 2023 I called NCL about this and this was their response: The system sends out the emails automatically so as to make sure nobody misses it as it's very important to watch. If you've already viewed it, then you can disregard the subsequent messages. I got bombarded by the safety emails when I went on Prima. I've only received maybe 3 emails for my upcoming cruise. I already watched the video when I did the check-in and I'll have to watch it again in the cabin so the TV will work. Seems like there could be a way to register completion of viewing the video so that it's not necessary to keep sending out multiple messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markj Posted September 8, 2023 Author #34 Share Posted September 8, 2023 When you turn on the TV for the first time on Prima it plays a more extended 14 minute safety video. And just to clarify for anyone who thinks I don't like don't want or am unhappy in any way whatsoever with the safety video- I am not. However in the modern technological age we live in it cannot be beyond the technical and programming teams to know when someone has watched it. Once with check in, once in an email and once on the TV would be just about right. Interestingly after the muster stations messages had been made on Prima during embarkation and just after departure there were STILL people who were attending the muster stations to have their keycard scanned today - which is day 2!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footer6 Posted April 12 #35 Share Posted April 12 On 9/7/2023 at 2:56 PM, graphicguy said: I believe they keep sending them out until they have a record of all guests having viewed it. I'm sure it's a blanket, batch message that dies not differentiate between who has and who hasn't viewed it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footer6 Posted April 12 #36 Share Posted April 12 Leaving Sunday. Watched the safety video during check-in. Got emails saying, "watch it again." We watched it again. Got four more emails - "Watch it again." My question is whether I'm supposed to verify somehow that we complied with the request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare graphicguy Posted April 12 #37 Share Posted April 12 6 minutes ago, footer6 said: Leaving Sunday. Watched the safety video during check-in. Got emails saying, "watch it again." We watched it again. Got four more emails - "Watch it again." My question is whether I'm supposed to verify somehow that we complied with the request. I "think" there's some sort of registered note that you watched it, and you can't go to your muster station and check in until you watch the safety video. The issue is there's no "stop" code that keeps the safety video from being sent out after you watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BirdTravels Posted April 12 #38 Share Posted April 12 (edited) 2 hours ago, footer6 said: Leaving Sunday. Watched the safety video during check-in. Got emails saying, "watch it again." We watched it again. Got four more emails - "Watch it again." My question is whether I'm supposed to verify somehow that we complied with the request. You have completed your duty no need to bump s long dead thread. Edited April 12 by BirdTravels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zqvol Posted April 12 #39 Share Posted April 12 41 minutes ago, BirdTravels said: You have completed your duty no need to bump s long dead thread. Better than starting a new thread 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BirdTravels Posted April 12 #40 Share Posted April 12 1 hour ago, zqvol said: Better than starting a new thread As a long time poster, you know better. Resurrecting a dead thread often causes undue confusion with old, out-of-date, and inaccurate information. In this case, while there was once a consistent repeated transmission of safety video reminders, we have sailed twice (including a cruise last week) where we did not receive any email reminders. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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