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--=====================_15832338==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi John I do not work as the full time Capt on the boats, I did last year for the summer. We have done some training, this year I have worked so much at my present/old full time job, I have not been involved with the crew or boat for their training, it's no longer my job, I just go as the co Capt on the overnighters when I want. Vbtech has had meetings and gone over procedures at the shop for what we want. There could always be more. When I decided to not run the boats full time anymore at the end of last year, they had to employ 2 more Captains, a new repair guy, and assign someone at the shop to do all scheduling I was doing just to replace me. One of the shop boats is a new pro 48, and does not have a chase boat, just like the FL dive boats don't, but it does have twin engines, where MOST of the FL dive boats I have been on only have one, it is not used for tech trips. The ML has a chase boat and is only deployed on the big dives or if the charter request it(not some individual or panicked moron on the boat who doesn't have a clue) or when it's needed. You can check my site I have photos of us going to pick up divers who needed some assistance for some reason on there using the chase boat. I often post with different agendas than some think, I only get side tracked with bullshit I have to answer from the BIG DICK and the wannabees. Just like everyone thought I was posting to the commercial Capt (who wouldn't reveal his name) about the CG medovac procedures. You know that you ask me in private to do it for you, but my real aim was to the 2 new Captains at the shop, as well as any other new Capt. or unprepared one. There are a great many Capt. out there who don't know what to do or how to act in the real life drill and though I have been unfortunate to see many things I can use those unpleasant things to guide someone else if and when something happens on their boats. This also helps those who would be on the boat and now know what is going on and how to help, panic does no good at all. I don't know if that answers your questions enough, but that is all you're going to get, I think it was a ploy anyway. Now that I think about it, the request you made for the medovac may have been a ploy also. You had no way of knowing my office was 200ft from the CG office here and that I would confirm my post with them as the correct way, with name and title of the head guy. At 12:33 PM 8/23/02 -0500, John R. Strohm wrote: >Joe has raised a question, although he might not realize it. > >When was the last time you and your crew did a full-up diver rescue drill, >including deploying and running the chase boat? > >How often do you and your crew practice this kind of thing? > >As anyone who has ever read any of Dick Marcinko's books would know, the >big guys practice their trades ALL THE TIME. "The harder you sweat in >training, the less you bleed in war." Or something like that. > >--John > "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in the water" Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more Web Site http://www.capt-jt.com/ Email captjt@mi*.co* --=====================_15832338==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> Hi John<br> I do not work as the full time Capt on the boats, I did last year for the summer. We have done some training, this year I have worked so much at my present/old full time job, I have not been involved with the crew or boat for their training, it's no longer my job, I just go as the co Capt on the overnighters when I want. Vbtech has had meetings and gone over procedures at the shop for what we want. There could always be more. When I decided to not run the boats full time anymore at the end of last year, they had to employ 2 more Captains, a new repair guy, and assign someone at the shop to do all scheduling I was doing just to replace me. <br> <br> One of the shop boats is a new pro 48, and does not have a chase boat, just like the FL dive boats don't, but it does have twin engines, where MOST of the FL dive boats I have been on only have one, it is not used for tech trips. The ML has a chase boat and is only deployed on the big dives or if the charter request it(not some individual or panicked moron on the boat who doesn't have a clue) or when it's needed. You can check my site I have photos of us going to pick up divers who needed some assistance for some reason on there using the chase boat. <br> <br> I often post with different agendas than some think, I only get side tracked with bullshit I have to answer from the BIG DICK and the wannabees.<br> <br> Just like everyone thought I was posting to the commercial Capt (who wouldn't reveal his name) about the CG medovac procedures. You know that you ask me in private to do it for you, but my real aim was to the 2 new Captains at the shop, as well as any other new Capt. or unprepared one. There are a great many Capt. out there who don't know what to do or how to act in the real life drill and though I have been unfortunate to see many things I can use those unpleasant things to guide someone else if and when something happens on their boats. This also helps those who would be on the boat and now know what is going on and how to help, panic does no good at all. <br> <br> I don't know if that answers your questions enough, but that is all you're going to get, I think it was a ploy anyway. Now that I think about it, the request you made for the medovac may have been a ploy also. You had no way of knowing my office was 200ft from the CG office here and that I would confirm my post with them as the correct way, with name and title of the head guy.<br> <br> <br> <br> At 12:33 PM 8/23/02 -0500, John R. Strohm wrote:<br> <font face="arial" size=2><blockquote type=cite cite>Joe has raised a question, although he might not realize it.</font><br> <br> <font face="arial" size=2>When was the last time you and your crew did a full-up diver rescue drill, including deploying and running the chase boat?</font><br> <br> <font face="arial" size=2>How often do you and your crew practice this kind of thing?</font><br> <br> <font face="arial" size=2>As anyone who has ever read any of Dick Marcinko's books would know, the big guys practice their trades ALL THE TIME. "The harder you sweat in training, the less you bleed in war." Or something like that.</font><br> <br> <font face="arial" size=2>--John</font><br> </blockquote><br> <br> "You can't learn to dive on the net, sooner or later you have to get in the water"<br> <font color="#0000FF"><u>Your Guide to Great Wreck Diving along the East Coast & more <br> Web Site <a href="http://www.capt-jt.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.capt-jt.com</a><a href="http://www.capt-jt.com/" eudora="autourl">/<br> </a>Email captjt@mi*.co*<br> <br> </font></u></html> --=====================_15832338==_.ALT-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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