Gaynor signs up for the RYA Sea Survival Course in case the worst ever happens when we are at sea. The course was run in Bangor N. Ireland by DV Diving and S...

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well I'm on an adventure all on my own

today

because I myself on sea survival

course you don't have to do that's part

of the young masters but I just thought

it would be a good idea to go on the

course and see what it's like

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we've our handsome because our swimming

pool behind me and any minute now I'm

gonna get drunk in there fully dressed

so sir yeah it's the sea survival you do

theory which have done this morning and

now it's on to the practical and I'm

definitely apprehensive

we started by jumping into the pool our

first volunteer used his own life jacket

an inflated really quickly

hey when you were swimming you need to

use either the backstroke or the bottom

fly stroke

his life jacket also came with bay hood

which is a really good idea and stopped

you swallowing so you order

we all wore on normal sailing gear so

that the training would be similar to

what you'd experience in a real disaster

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so we can see our intrepid volunteers

jumping into the water and you just

might be able to make height gainer

doing her video camera stuff over there

but we of course roll waiting for the

moment of glory we're all waiting for

gainer to jump in a little bit of luck

she'll remember to take the waterproof

camera into the pool with her and not

the other one the moment of glory

approaches

if you have no crotch strap you need to

keep your hand over the life jacket to

keep it from rising over your head but

as you can see I haven't fitted it

correctly because the bladders separated

at the bottom so knowing how to fit your

life jacket is really important

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we started by practicing some basic

maneuvers called the crocodile and the

huddle if you are floating on your own

you tend to face oncoming waves in the

huddle

only one person faces the waves and

you're able to support someone who is

not wearing a lifejacket

this maneuver called the crocodile is

for when you need to swim to the life

raft or rescue vessel it lets you

support each other in some in case

someone is tired or a poor swimmer it's

really hard to do and I need more

practice

and they got käptn kaos to fill the

court

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yep käptn kaos have benefited it

upside-down

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once a life raft was upright we

simulated leaving our sinking boat and

getting into the right back we use the

same opportunity to practice leaving the

life raft

well I currently look like a drowned rat

for the Senecas I am and I'm now going

to get into a life raft and finally from

the thing

so I'll be interested in a very wet

erecting a sailor's we are often told to

never to step down into a life raft stay

with the boat as long as possible and

this means you will need to climb into

the life raft so guess what we did next

and it's not all that easy I struggle to

find some of the steps

it's not quite going to plan for gainer

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well her before getting into a life raft

are I've now got a right set so these

are all good important things that you

do and there's nothing like actually

doing it yourself so I would highly

recommend

one hazard is that the sea anchors have

weights in them and you do not want them

hitting your head however when you write

the raft it does land on your head

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for having a life raft on top of the

earth it's definitely a very scary

thought but there's always a scary

feeling I mean but one else coming out

my little toggle here got caught in one

of the ropes and it was like oh my

goodness

and having that clear head in an

emergency situation now I'm not an

emergency but you have enough they had

in remote situation I imagine being very

hard the final step was to join all our

learning together and do that in one go

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so now you're back from the sea survival

course what do we need to change on

board salty lass what did you learn oh

so not really good we've got plenty of

fresh air in the grand back so what

should we be putting in it

well we should be sweating some

first-aid equipment some survival

equipment you know like fishing line we

do have a knife in the life raft but

maybe an extra knife and a floating one

at that you know so we need some

essential equipment some food would be

nice protein bars water stuff like that

really yeah

what about radios yes well we do have

our radio which we will take with us so

we'll just have to make sure that that

is always charged also obviously this is

just this is ours is for five miles you

know but if there is at least a boat far

far enough away that you can see it we

should be able to get them so that's an

essential really did they say anything

about lifejackets they sort of said

quite a lot about lifejackets and

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maintaining your life jackets and will

probably produce another video on safety

on salty laughs later on that will cover

that but one of the things is you know

to maintain your lifejacket and is there

any particular type of lifejacket is

preferred over others

well hungry young course I had a life

jacket that didn't have crotch

yeah and it kept on riding up and I can

see why everybody recommends a crotch

strap then one of the guys he had a hood

over his face now if you're in the water

on your own you'll tend towards pointing

to the wave so the waves will be coming

over you so at least if you had a hood

that will mean that that's you know

you've not got a problem you're not

getting water in your face you're not

getting water in your face that's why

the huddle was quite useful because in

the huddle least only one person has got

the face to the waves the other people

have at least got a break from that but

yeah I mean so I was in the water

and it was flat calming them in the

swimming pool and I still got water in

my face so having that chord would be

really good I believe there was a

section on attitude and that we're going

to link to array mirrors video will put

an end screen at the end of the video

what can you tell me about that well

basically you know we've watched it with

Bev as well all about attitude and

having the right mental attitude is

really good the other thing is just

being prepared and that's why we've got

to look at our grab bag because we're

just not prepared so wasn't worth the

time effort and money oh absolutely

I mean say you know it was a day the

course up here in Northern Ireland cost

150 pounds for the day

but I thought it was well worth it Bevan

a we've got a book as well but Bev and I

are going to go through the book

together

also we're going to go swimming and

practice some of the moves so that we

can work as a team because that's

important

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