Thursday, May 25, 2006

   Day 2 of cold water survival training!
today is the day in my cold water survival training class where we had to get into our survival suits and jump off the back of a research boat into the 43° water and link up with my 4 teammates and together swim to shore. after the beach and clumsily climb out of the water we gave the signal to the research of the new rule all OK and then helped each other out of our survival suits. after getting out of our survival suits me and my forte teammates began our 7 steps to survive,which are as follows #1 recognize the situation #2 inventorie (that means make sure everyone is all right and see what supplies we have to work with).#3 setup signals such as three fires (of which we used one for cooking and drying out our close because one of my teammates was soaking wet because her suit leaked) in a line and hang our survival suits up so they will be visible from sea and lay them out on the beach to be visible from the air. #4shelter find a suitable place out of the weather (in our case this meant laying locks against a clay bank which had been washed out and filling the cracks with seaweed to seal in the body heat. #5 water (which meant we had to find a source of fresh water and in our case we used a old boot and a large clamshell to collect rainwater. #6 food (we found lpits, snails, hermit crabs, and a few small shore crabs and even a couple kitens, which we've been boiled in seawater in a are soup can (scrumptious) which me and one of my teammates indulged in a rather all you can eat buffet of critters, which rather disturbing and kind of grossed out the three girls on our team. but one of them finally did get brave enough to try a limpit, which she actually swallowed much to our surprise. the 7th and final step to survival is play(for this we hung a rope we had found from a nearby tree and made a rather exciting rope swing plus we also found a tennis ball and played a game of baseball using a piece of driftwood as the bat. well there you have the seven steps to survival and of course we passed the test with flying colors and everyone enjoyed themselves as well. we also looked out on the fact it didn't rain which made starting the fires a lot easier ,but we still had to use some cigarettes one of my teammates had smuggled in to start the fires much to their gripes and groans "not my D#$%@ cigarettes you wouldn't dare!" of which I reply you wouldn't be saying that if this was a real survival situation. anyway after we cleaned up our camps are teacher showed us how to use signal flares and rock flares. It was really fun using the flares and boy let me tell you those rocket players really take off and go for instance up to 1000ft. in the air (WOW!) but of course our teacher called into the Coast Guard to let them know we would be doing pyrotechnic training that way no one would think there was actually an emergency. and that was all over with we packed up our stuff onto the boat and headed back to the marine from where we had set out this morning and on the boat ride home I snuggled down amongst the life jackets and fell asleep 'cause I was absolutely exhausted from the day's activitys. well that's a wrap folks and I hope you enjoyed my stories of today's experience with cold water survival training and if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask them when you comment. anyway I have tomorrow and Monday off of school so I will probably be on here caller of the time and the other part of the time I will be on Vachon island visiting my grandparents and don't worry I will make sure to let you guys know what happens over there. G2G see what you all have been up to so bie for now.

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