ISAR T-4 days

Everyone is here now - after the requsite 1 ferry wait - 3:30 on a friday but AFTER labour day - very strange - man is it getting busy here.

Anyway, we had a great training session last night - made pizza and went through the little VHF radio quizz I did up as well as a splicing review and just some general chat to get the entire team on the same page. I´m blogging early today before we Head out on the water for another full day of simulated SAR.

I think everyone is feeling good About everything - our meet last night identified a few issues - but nothing major and they probably all got dealt with during the evening (which was the basic idea) Today it´s down to practical stuff like SAQR pump and heaving Line practise as well as just some basic search patterns practice and above and bayone everything else - team communications.

I´ll try to grab a few photos today while we´re out there but there is loads to do so I´m not sure - should be a good day with all 5 team members we have only tomorrow with the three 3 crew and myself and then that´s it - time has flown by and we´re almost there!

The arrival of one of the team yesterday also saw the flight suits arrive - they rock apart from the fact that the manufacturer seems to believe that pockets must be HUGE - I could fit a 2L pop-bottle into the left breast radio pocket - NOT KIDDING! so we are going to stitch them down a bit to make them realistic.

Finally, hoping this isn´t a sign of some sort - the hotel we all stayed in during SARCOMP (the regional competition where we were selected for ISAR) caught fire yesterday - one person was killed. This just happens to be the first thing I read on my morning screen (all my news is on-line) and got me thinking.

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