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(Houston Chronicle) Interesting NASA making some extra scratch by renting out their neutral buoyancy pool to an oil company training firm   (chron.com) divider line 8
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EnviroDude [TotalFark]
2011-11-16 10:59:04 AM
I have been in offshore survival training. More or less, you spend all day in class learning how to get out of a crashed helicopter. For the final exercise, you were buckled in a seat that simulated a helicopter, blindfolded, put in the water and turned upside down. After the instructor tapped you on the shoulder, you could start your escape.

/the main thing I learned is that I didn't want to be in a whirly bird if it crashed in the drink.

//pauses to remember my friends that weren't so lucky to escape bird crashes.
 
m1ke
2011-11-16 02:57:13 PM
Good for them, might as well get something out of that giant swimming pool.
 
RatOmeter
2011-11-16 03:05:12 PM
m1ke: Good for them, might as well get something out of that giant swimming pool.

They could use it to drown puppies and kittens for the local inhumane shelter.

/What?
 
StokeyBob
2011-11-16 04:05:26 PM
I'm one of the original investors. I can't wait to get the check for my share in the mail.
 
SVenus
2011-11-16 06:27:49 PM
It's like training to shut off the oil flow on a giant underwater oil blowout.

what a useless skill...
 
Cndn Bacon
2011-11-16 06:38:08 PM
EnviroDude: I have been in offshore survival training. More or less, you spend all day in class learning how to get out of a crashed helicopter. For the final exercise, you were buckled in a seat that simulated a helicopter, blindfolded, put in the water and turned upside down. After the instructor tapped you on the shoulder, you could start your escape.

They don't even blindfold you anymore, at least not when I did my training a couple years ago. The training center in Galveston did that but since Ike hit, that one is no more. The other one, west of Houston has the more elaborate helicopter simulator (like the one FTFA) but doesn't blindfold anyone.

CSB:

I grew up down the street from and was friends with the one guy (out of 19 I think) that survived the helicopter crash off the coast of Newfoundland a couple years ago. I can only imagine the survivor's guilt he must have.
 
Huck And Molly Ziegler
2011-11-17 03:23:30 AM
Somebody post a full-view picture of the pool. I want to see how large it is.

/also wanna swim laps in it
//or maybe just one.
 
snoproblem
2011-11-17 09:44:59 AM
Talk about the wrong stuff.
 
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