Training Last Night
7:00pm saw the team cliff training up on the Ballard Estate. As we only had seven in total we sadly were unable to go over the cliff (8 are needed to do this safely). Given we have not had a proper ‘Cliff Job’ since last May it is even more important that the team keeps its skills upto date.
What made the set up more interesting was the amount of dog poo which we had to avoid. Once again Brian ‘took one for the team’ be treading in the dog poo and then wondering why there was a funny smell that was following him and why the rest of us kept running away.
The set up went well and allowed the SO and DSO to assess and sign us off as proficient on certain parts of the procedure. A good training session all in all.
After an impromptu ‘Dog Poo Inspection’ … “No DOG POO in the truck!” we returned to the station for tea and ….biscuits. As an experiment a packet of super value digestive biscuits were passed around- these known in the trade as the ‘Decoy Biscuits’. Once everyone had a handful the SO suddenly ‘found’ the posh biscuits which he was then able to eat all by himself without interruption from the rest of us. We had been hoodwinked.
Final discussions centred on the team’s work over the next few months, the benefit of a Navtex over a weather station, who threw perfectly good brakes pads in the bin and why Brian had yellow trousers.
7:00pm saw the team cliff training up on the Ballard Estate. As we only had seven in total we sadly were unable to go over the cliff (8 are needed to do this safely). Given we have not had a proper ‘Cliff Job’ since last May it is even more important that the team keeps its skills upto date.
What made the set up more interesting was the amount of dog poo which we had to avoid. Once again Brian ‘took one for the team’ be treading in the dog poo and then wondering why there was a funny smell that was following him and why the rest of us kept running away.
The set up went well and allowed the SO and DSO to assess and sign us off as proficient on certain parts of the procedure. A good training session all in all.
After an impromptu ‘Dog Poo Inspection’ … “No DOG POO in the truck!” we returned to the station for tea and ….biscuits. As an experiment a packet of super value digestive biscuits were passed around- these known in the trade as the ‘Decoy Biscuits’. Once everyone had a handful the SO suddenly ‘found’ the posh biscuits which he was then able to eat all by himself without interruption from the rest of us. We had been hoodwinked.
Final discussions centred on the team’s work over the next few months, the benefit of a Navtex over a weather station, who threw perfectly good brakes pads in the bin and why Brian had yellow trousers.
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