As a previously mentioned in my short post yesterday. I have been offline and out of town "stuck" on a sail boat training and running drills for the upcoming summer season here in the Pacific North West. It was a hectic few days with the team covering the entire list of duties, location of all equipment on the vessels and running emergency drills. It was nothing short of fun and mentally draining after two long days.
The Island Odyssey at anchor for the night at Bedwell Harbour
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By the far the funnest part of training, well, what I believe is the funnest part of doing training would be the MOB drills, which stands is Man Over Board drills. This is where we run through scenarios of someone potentially falling overboard and the process and procedures we run through in order to get that individual back on the vessel as quickly and efficient as humanly possible. This is because the water is pretty damn cold and some people will only have minutes in the water without buoyancy device before the coldness will begin to greatly affect their body.
!steemitworldmap 48.754062 lat -123.252179 long at anchor for the night d3scr
The zodiacs we use whilst on the expedition, trail the sailboat
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Really soothing images. I've been enjoying the warm, sunny day here today, but it's great counterpoint to end the day with your cool water photos. Your life sounds so interesting.
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Nice photography and beautiful landscape.. hopefully I can be like this
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I have never done swimming in my life, let alone swim in cold water. But I want to learn how to swim. The MOB drill really must have been fun. The photographs seem to have clicked from a professional, really well done.
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Interesting to know what y' guys re up to...i have swim in cold water back then in my village, we have a river, so i do go fishing then so i do swim a lot. Though i don't swim much during winter because of the coldness of water then..nice seeing your post
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How interesting your activities! You must be very healthy physically. Beautiful landscapes!
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I guess that's work and play put together, @thomasjmitchell.
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What's the temperature of the water?
Did some cold water swimming, but I prefer pool swimming 😅
What is the size of the team your doing this training with? Has everybody the some goals they need to train or is it job specific?
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The temperature hangs around 6-10 degrees celsius. Its not overly too pleasant to swim around for too long. One the expeditions I work on we have 4 crew members on board for about 12 guests. With the training we had most of the whole team for the company there, which was about 20 people in total. It is job specific - running through potential emergency scenarios so that everyone knows what to do in case, heaven forbid, the worse happens. It is highly unlikely but preparation for safety is paramount for being on the ocean with what we do
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Nope those temperatures without a wetsuit are definitely no pleasure at all. And indeed that's what you train for, those situations you'll hope never gonna happen but if they do happen you know what to do. While training you simulate the same crew size as while your on a expedition?
Maybe an idea for you guys for next year: train the so called Wim Hof method (the iceman) before going to this training
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Thomas, está increíble me encanta los colores del atardecer
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Keep me a spot!!!! I'm coming. Watch your back, I'll show up in my zodiac ;)
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