Sea Survival Course

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peteandthira

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Herself has just done the SSC. It was excellent. It gave her chance to play with her own lifejacket, crotch straps and hood, all worked as we hoped. The opportunity to get into a liferaft was well worth it, and the whole day only cost 75 quid.

For ex-aircrew, not required if you did your annual sea drills.

Lots of interesting thought-provoking stuff on casualty recovery and that old chestnut about vertical lifting post-immersion.

To be recommended.

Pops
 
Excellent!
Is there a YBW Forum survival course? he he /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Summint about blood rushing away from vital organs ... although with blokes it is less of a problem as the brain is usually lower in the body! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

The suggestion is that a horizontal lift (or close to) is preferable if possible.
 
olewill

Try this

www.nasbla.org/powerpoint/2004_Conference/Cold%20Water%20Immersion.ppt

Edit - Oops, that article mentioned the problem, but didn't describe it.

Here goes then;

Post-Immersion collapse: Casualties in water get a hydrostatic squeeze from the surrounding water. This helps maintain circulation by forcing blood into central core where vital organs are.

If causalty is removed from the water vertically, the sudden loss of hydrostatic squeeze results in blood dropping to the legs. This is the problem and can cause circulatory collapse and then death. Casualties should always be recovered in a horizontal position when possible.

That lot was straight from SWMBO's handouts from the course.

OK?

Pops

Pops
 
Which is why for instance helicopter crews tend to fish people out of the sea with a strop under their knees as well as one beneath the arms. Another of the lessons learnt from the Fastnet race disaster, IIRC.
 
Chatting to a mate recently (well, THE mate) who says he just glues his missus's boots to the deck. No POB!

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Carole and I went on The Sea Survival Course at Southampton Activities Centre last year.
It was an exhausting and very wet day.
Conquered vertigo by jumping into water from a high diving board and then swimming to raft.
It really makes you realise how difficult it would be to survive in the worst scenario.
 
franky

Agreed. I haven't done the course, but have done similar scary things with a noisy hydraulic palm tree clattering around above my head and making a mess of the water.

All very good value.

Pops
 
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