Training
 

SURFACE SUPPLIED AIR DIVE TRAINING
Friday, May 23, 2008
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A-shift headed to the pool to train on the surface-supplied air system. The new umbilicals with integrated communications are a great safety factor when diving in murky water (as we do most of the time in the Chesapeake Bay and it's tributaries). All personnel had the chance to operate the ...

 
FF Hamilton at the bottom of the pool
    FF Hamilton at the bottom of the pool
Ditching weights
    Ditching weights
 
OPEN WATER TRAINING
Friday, May 2, 2008
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Today D-Shift spent several hours on the Severn River practicing boat handling skills and rescue swimmer deployment and retrievals. "A" shift participated in boat training as well during their assigned shift.

 
   
   
 
B-SHIFT DOES COLLAPSE TRAINING AROUND THE STATION
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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B-shift's training at the USAR site was cancelled today, but do you think that stopped the shift from training? Heck NO! After a quick look around the station the decision was made to practice shoring on the shed out back. All the members of the shift chipped in cutting wood, working on angles, a...

 
   
   
 
Swift Water Rescue Training
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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During the week of June 25th, all station 23 shifts headed out to Dickerson, MD for Swift Water Rescue Training. Shifts refreshed on rescue swimming, live bait exercises, eddy hopping and boat training. The "flume" at Dickerson, is an engineered runoff of water from the Dickerson Pow...


 

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