At this stage of the proceedings, Venture Cadet M. D. Irvine, of St. Mary's, Ont., a long way from home and none too close to the terrestrial globe, may well have been mentally revising the song "Clancy lowers the boom" into a sort of prayer to fit the occasion. The photograph was taken during a boatwork training period while HMCS Ontario was anchored in Platypus Bay, Queensland, Australia.