No scuba tanks and yeah, it's the money and time off to spend it on things that *may* be illegal/immoral that are the real appeal of this line of work
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That HUET thing scares the absolute shit out of me. I'm a big guy with wide shoulders that's got to get out of a small window while upside-down underwater behind other people who might panic and slow the exit down. Next problem is while I'm a strong swimmer and generally enjoy being in a pool or the ocean, I have one of those noses that doesn't block out h2o going straight into my lungs when upside-down under water. So the fear of drowning is very real while doing this shit, you can't really pinch your nose while undoing a seatbelt and making a beeline for the emergency exit window as both hands are needed to pull yourself along. I've heard of HUET courses before where you go thru the whole thing blindfolded to create the added drama of being in a Chopper that ditches and turns turtle at night. Seriously, if an instructor would have ever told me to do this I would have walked out and
never taken a contract that needed HUET again.