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Force of impact, drowning, getting chopped up and then if your really unlucky fireLike the North sea
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not worried about anything
i cant swim and terrified of water. If i go down im the first one to be killed to death
In fact the HUET course was more scary than going in a chopper as they repeatedly dunk you in the water, in a hopper it will only happen the once...
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talking to a sailor that was in the war and he said it was best if you couldnt swim 
if the ship went down anyone that couldnt swim died in minutes . anyone that could took a fair bit longer and swam till they could no longer and died or got hypothermia
if the ship went down anyone that couldnt swim died in minutes . anyone that could took a fair bit longer and swam till they could no longer and died or got hypothermia
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A guy I know was the pilot of the Midland airways Plane that lost it's cargo door on the approach to Teesside, it landed slap bang in the middle of the only brand new car in the street.
We did ask "Don't you go round it before take-off and kick the tyres and try the door handles?" apparently yes, but they missed this one.
We did ask "Don't you go round it before take-off and kick the tyres and try the door handles?" apparently yes, but they missed this one.
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I've done the HUET course a dozen times, each time I'm terrified to begin with, but enjoy it by the end.
The last couple of courses I did in Stockton on Tees we used a rebreather, like a hot water bottle strapped to your chest, and you could re-breath your air up to a dozen breaths before it started to get a bit muggy. The secret was to give it a double blow up before you went underwater. You could easily stay submerged for well over a minute.
The one we had to do up in Canadia we had to use a small air bottle, like a mini scuba tank the size of an aerosol. I had no end of trouble, couldn't breathe underwater, turned out mine was faulty..... got a new one and it was easy.
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daughter had to do them when she was in the navy. then do them again when she got a job working offshore on the wind turbines
Bird ?
Really.
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course u can just lay on your back and tread waterI don't like the sound of these HUET courses, I can swim but I don't float.
i nearly drowned once in a lake swam half a mile and floated after i was knacked and a safety boat picked me up was frightening
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i did the candian one too in halifax was like sas training took us 5 miles out in the atlantic then step off the side of a tug
remember being strapped on a big stainless chair and turned upside down
the deploy the breathing bottle was a big improvement over the re breather
skyscape was about 80ft high was hoping the nets werent rotten
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I don't like the sound of these HUET courses, I can swim but I don't float.
yes as they say i prefer terra firma
the more firmer the less terra
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If you have ever been offshore, don’t think so, you’ll find there are no safety boats just chilling out at the site of a random chopper crashsafety boat picked me up
To pickup internet experts
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Have you ever tried this in freezing cold North Sea water where your grasping for breath due to cold shockcourse u can just lay on your back and tread water
Your level of dismissive ness is beginning to **** me off. Very very much
Infact you’ve just earned a place on my block list. Person no 3
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I swam across Crookes Valley Pond last summer, about half way I realised I'm not nearly as fit as I thought, just about made it to the far side but there was no way I was swimming back, in the meantime my friends were doing laps.course u can just lay on your back and tread water
A week later someone drowned in there.
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That happens annually several times in the gravelpit near where I grew up. Once you get over the ‘shelf’ and into deep water the temperature plummets. Easy to get cramp and start sucking water through hyperventilating. Another thing they teach you on BOSIET / HUET courses is to breath through your hands till it stabilises.
Done lots. First was early ‘00s in Esbjerg harbour. Been on an indoor sim pool over there as well for a RIB. that was proper. Lights out, big waves, white noise, strobes, capsize drill in real time (that’s scary no matter who you are) in icy horizontal rain. They’ve even got an overhead rescue ‘helicopter’ with winch for those that make it to the life raft. I “died” on the first one and got fished out by a diver.
Done lots. First was early ‘00s in Esbjerg harbour. Been on an indoor sim pool over there as well for a RIB. that was proper. Lights out, big waves, white noise, strobes, capsize drill in real time (that’s scary no matter who you are) in icy horizontal rain. They’ve even got an overhead rescue ‘helicopter’ with winch for those that make it to the life raft. I “died” on the first one and got fished out by a diver.
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Did a bit of agency work for the odd trip over the years to keep the hours up on my vantage card (use it or lose it and often I wouldn’t get on a heli for months). Anyway. I did 2no 3week trips on one rig. The radio operator was a big fat fk. He was made by everyone else, forcefully a few times, to sit in the middle seat. His nickname was ‘plug’. You can work out why I’d think if you’ve ever seen the windows on a 139
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Been there, done that, got the tee shirt.More worrying when you don't swimand they remind you Don't blow up the vest till your out
I was pinned to the roof of the simulator, when it was upside down in the swimming pool cause I panicked and inflated vest early.
The bar stewards laughed for bit before they pulled me out. I was the joke of the night in the pub
