Go easy on the steak and kidney pies before you get dunked in that Mendy
Go easy on the steak and kidney pies before you get dunked in that Mendy
Yes Katie, but no before they turn you upside down as well.
Despite the constant shite I get thrown at me, my life is pretty stable and easy and I very rarely have to step out of my comfort zone... but that all changes every four years. I won't deny that I'd lost some sleep over the few days running up to the course and the thought of it had been a constant niggle for a week or so. I absolutely hate it... well the run up anyway with the feeling of apprehension that had built up over several days.
Once you're there and have to do it you just get on with it and as usual, it wasn't that bad after all. I have at least one more refresher to do, probably two depending on/if the daughter's further education.
But this is what it was all about... permission to work offshore for another four years. Not far off 40,000 Baht with additional modules for Norway, but what can ya do?
Well, I wish you had mentioned that a few days ago, Mike.
^ a massage to relieve the stress seems obvious, you just have understand there are various types which relieve different types of stress - i'm sure with the variety in BKK somewhere on the menus there is one that will alleviate anxiety of drowning in a helicopter 4 hand massage
It always amused me how a select few wrangled it so that you needed "permission" to work offshore, win, win for them?
When you look at how many thousands of lives have been saved with the compulsory training, after Choppers have plunged from the skies, crashed into the sea & flipped over & the whole crew is picked up with their rebreathers still functioning perfectly you have to be thankful its not just for money and control.
Glad that is all behind me now...
Less drama Mendy, there are teenage girls doing BOSIET courses every day!
Couldn't you just have bribed someone to get the permit for that much money?
Slight exaggeration Dirk, I've yet to see a teenage girl offshore although I have seen plenty of guys who wear skirts... that's what gets me through it.
But you're correct, at the end of the day it's not that bad but everyone has their thing. I've seen a guy back out and fail the course due to HUET during the course.
Yep, but at that time I wanted the work and you were not setting foot on a Petronas site without that certificate and other credentials like a medical and clean drug test and so on.
People might have trouble understanding how others could be scared doing HUET training, but it would be like asking someone who's uncomfortable about flying and heights to go skydiving.
^When you've done it once, you're not going to learn anything new doing it again in my experience. Natural instinct to get the fuck out of that thing as you're being submerged and the water goes above your head is ridiculous, but you can't, and you have to stay strapped in till the cabin is fully flooded and then turns upside down before un-buckling yourself and following someone out of a small window. Not everyone's idea of a fun thing to have to do regularly, obviously.
I just found this online:
Injury rate in a helicopter underwater escape trainer (HUET) from 2005-2012
Abstract
Background: Helicopter underwater escape training (HUET) carries a potential for injury and this paper identifies the injury rate.
Method: A marine survival training school registry of all students trained between 2005-2012 in HUET and the coinciding accident records were examined.
Results: There were 8902 students trained in a helicopter underwater escape simulator for a total of 59,245 underwater escapes. There were 40 cases where only first-aid was required and 3 serious injuries (a laceration requiring 5 sutures, 1 dislocated shoulder, and 1 water aspiration requiring hospitalization). There were no deaths and no problems reported with using the Emergency Breathing System (EBS) or Air Pocket. Of the injuries, 11 were due to the student using a poor escape technique. The overall probability of injury was 0.74 per 1000 ascents.
Conclusions: In HUET training, there is a very low injury rate with almost no significant severity. Although not scientifically proven, this would suggest that the low incident rate is due to good medical screening and the attention given by instructors to anxious students. Compared to other training such as diving, parachute jumping, and submarine escape training, the rate of injury was considerably lower.
Lang may yer lum reek...
^ So.... HW and Mendy are a couple of fannies?
Who'd a thunk it
Imagine being sat between these 2 pussies in a real helicopter plunging into the ice cold North Sea...
Rather than a slow controlled rotation in a heated fucking swimming pool... with life guards
Looks a piece of piss. Look how relaxed they all are
There's a process.
First time they just dunk you under vertically and you escape out an open window.
Next is the same but you have to push the window out.
Then you get flipped and escape an open window followed by a closed window.
You may go again and be 2nd out the window.
You may do each of those twice, once with a re-breather and once without.
Then you usually get an optional chance at a more real life situation with blacked out goggles, no nose clip and an aisle seat. This one's my favourite.
People pay money to do that at water parks FFS.
Man up Mendy.
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