“My principal just kind of picked me to be here because I was interested in architecture, so she thought that it would be a cool experience for me to see a boat and stuff inside it,” said Obura.“There’s a lot more on show on a Navy vessel than, say, if you were to take a ferry,” he laughed. “There’s a lot more you can see on a Navy vessel than on a commercial vessel.”Robichaud hopes the tour will highlight opportunities to students that are interested in a Maritime career.
“To go and have our ships open for visitors, to go and have our sailors walking around downtown in their uniforms to say, ‘yes, we do have a Navy,’ just brings a lot of pride to everybody,” she said.The commander goes on to say that the ship offers a lot of educational opportunities to young people, especially to those who don’t know much about the Navy.
“It’s just a broad spectrum of what people can be interested in, we have that opportunity of showing that to people,” Robichaud said.The two acting captains ended their day on the HMCS Margaret Brook with a handshake and challenge coin presentation from Cmdr. Robichaud, and new options for their future.
“I think that it would even be kind of interesting to build ships, cause I never really considered that,” said Obura. “I was just more thinking about houses, but being here on a ship, I could definitely consider it in the future.”