[spongebobb]

hi folks ,
jees its been a while but here is the last 3 weeks installments from sunny dunoon .
week 5 , we were surveying the academys dive vessel the sleat . this involved starting with cleaning the underside , doing a anode survey ( condition and location ) and then taking a reading of the hull thickness with a cygnus reader . this was at half a metre spacings . we did this over a few days , and then had a 24 hour shift thrown in for good measure . oh how we laughed !!!
week 6 , we were on tools this week , we got to use lift bags , an airlift , an angle grinder , chainsaw , brushcart and a hand polisher . we were also running dive ops out of a trailer .
week 7 , rescue week . we have spent most of this week doing rescues from in water and doing jumps from the vessel deck . we were also doing the rescues from out the cage and at varying depths and distances. by the end of the week we had this all off to a fine art . we are also running the chamber on board doing surface decompression .
along with all the activities of the last few weeks we were running all topside operations , and we are regularly thrown scenarios involving anything from diver casualities , unconcious divers , rescues ( jumping standbys ) to hauling out divers from the water to the deck of the boat using ropes . air supplies failing at source , out of air situations under water , all at times when we obviously least expect them !!! AGAIN ALWAYS BUSY !!!
week 8 this week and onto the deep diving phase . and our final exam on surface supplied .
more to follow next week ....