Tributes eat breakfast in their district quarters, and at 8:00am are taken with their stylists and prep teams to hovercrafts, where they are bathed and dressed one last time during the flight. By 11:00 the hovercrafts land at a water-side airfield, and the stylists and tributes are escorted by Peacekeepers to board a submarine. Once the submarine docks, they are led to small individual launch rooms with tubes, which the tributes must be stationed in by 11:59am, at which point the tube is sealed. The countdown clock begins precisely at noon, and at 12:01pm, the gong sounds the start of the 66th Annual Hunger Games.