Rescue training in Salmon Arm
Salmon Arm Recreation Centre hosted safety training focused on planes or helicopter crews, and passengers rescue from the water. The safety training was provided by Pro Aviation Safety Training Ltd., which is a premier provider of aircraft ditching, underwater egress, HUET, and sea survival training to pilots, flight crews, and passengers working in the aviation, marine, and offshore industry.
The underwater egress training course is specially designed to train flight crew and passengers to get out alive in the event of their aircraft sinking or rolling upon water entry. To simulate real-life conditions, they wore full clothing and shoes. The training included two training exercises. The first one was the simulation of a plane crash into the water and passengers had to board the rescue boat. The course attendants were required to climb the boat in the shortest time possible.
The second part of the simulation was the underwater egress dunker as a simulated aircraft multi-crew cockpit which was placed in a pool and simulated an aircraft rolling inverted upon ditching into the water. The attendants were required to again escape from the dunker as quickly as possible, exactly following instructors’ advice and tips, which have been proved in the military and civilian aviation industry as the most effective technique for a successful underwater evacuation.
The third one was training to provide the participant with the knowledge, understanding, and skills to safely deploy and use the EUBA {Emergency underwater breathing apparatus} to assist them to successfully egress and highlight the limitations and potential hazards associated with the use of compressed air emergency breathing systems. EUBA is a compressed air emergency breathing device designed to be used to enhance survivability in the event of an underwater emergency.
After a couple of hours of intensive training, attendants will use gained skills in their carriers and missions of wildfire firefighters, pilots, Rappattack crews, and marines crews all over British Columbia.
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