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S69-20092 (1969-03-13 ) -- Aerial view of an Apollo 9 crewman in a new rescue net (a Billy Pugh net) being hoisted aboard a Navy helicopter after splashdown in the Atlantic recovery area and a successful ten-day, earth-orbital space mission. Navy divers have already attached a flotation collar to the command module and are assisting with recovery operations.
"Laboratory flotation cell: This laboratory floatation cell shows how the ink is washed out of the fibers. It is removed in a mixture of water, wastepaper, soap, and fat. Air then carries the old ink to the surface."
Rushing floodwaters loaded with heavy debris damaged oil and gas pipes and tanks, causing the two large spills that state and federal regulators were tracking Thursday.
Another eight releases, whose cause is undetermined, were classified as minor by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission — sheens, for example, coming off of a piece of equipment rather than a measurable volume of petroleum product.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. on Wednesday reported the two larger releases in Weld County. About 125 barrels — or 5,225 gallons — spilled into the South Platte River near Milliken. A tank farm on the St. Vrain River released 323 barrels — or 13,500 gallons — near Platteville.
Both releases involve condensate — a mixture of oil and water — according to Matthew Allen, a spokesman for the Denver office of the Environmental Protection Agency.
"We are back in the field today looking for ongoing releases," Allen said. "So far, we haven't found any of those."
State law requires oil and gas equipment in the floodplain to be anchored to resist flotation.
The Anadarko tank moorings held, company spokesman John Christiansen said, but strong waters and heavy debris appeared to have cracked pipes and manifolds, allowing the condensate to escape.
Anadarko was able to get absorbent booms and a vacuum truck to the Milliken site and collect about 40 barrels' worth of the 165 that had spilled, Christiansen said.
But floodwaters kept crews from reaching the tanks on the St. Vrain quickly. "By the time we got there, they were empty," he said.
The state oil and gas commission is trying to compile a comprehensive list of facilities in the flooded areas and their status, including what chemicals they had on site.
Companies are required by state law to report spills within 24 hours. "But they are moving faster than that with the flood," said Todd Hartman, a spokesman for the oil and gas commission.
Gov. John Hickenlooper, during a Thursday news conference on flood recovery, said the spills "weren't excessively large."
"The several small spills we've had have been very small relative to the huge flow of water coming through," he said.
The Denver Post on Thursday morning flew over the spill site south of Milliken. The site is near the confluence of the St. Vrain and South Platte, which overflowed their banks last week, flooding the towns of Milliken and Johnstown about 5 miles to the north.
From the air, two orange absorbent booms were visible across floodwaters around a cluster of listing beige storage tanks.
Colorado flooding
A view of the South Platte river, south of Milliken Colorado on September 19, 2013. Colorado oil and gas conservation commission investigators visited the site later and determined no petroleum products spilled and no equipment was damaged. This caption has been updated to reflect the investigators' findings. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)
toppled white tank into the muddy waters of the South Platte. There were no booms around that tank.
No industry or state crews were visible at either location.
According to an update Thursday from the oil and gas commission, the state had six teams of inspectors and environmental-protection specialists in the South Platte River valley looking for spills and damage and assessing environmental impact.
A commission staffer also was to fly over the flooded areas with the Weld County Sheriff's Department.
Anadarko, based in The Woodlands, Texas, is the second-largest operator in the oil-rich Denver-Julesburg Basin, which is centered in Weld County.
There 20,500 operating wells in Weld County, 321 wells in Boulder County, 97 wells in Broomfield County and 253 wells in Larimer County.
Larimer County emergency managers said Thursday they weren't aware of any spills. "We don't have the quantity of wells in Larimer County they do in Weld," sheriff's spokesman Nick Christensen said.
Anadarko said it has shut 250 tank batteries and 670 wells — about 10 percent of its operations — because of flooding.
The company has deployed about 150 people to check their sites, assess damage and make repairs.
The drilling rigs that the company could move have been transported to sites not affected by the flood. None of the sites where Anadarko is hydrofracturing — pumping large volumes of water, sand and trace chemicals into a well to crack rock and release oil and gas — are in flooded areas, Anadarko's Christiansen said.
Houston-based Noble Energy reported it has two wells that released natural gas before they were shut during the flood.
"There are no facilities operating under compromise or unknown conditions," said Tisha Schuller, president of the trade group Colorado Oil and Gas Association.
Wes Wilson, a former EPA environmental engineer who, through Be the Change, leads anti-drilling activists in Colorado, said some of the volatile material leaking into water materials from industry facilities will evaporate quickly.
But the sheens visible on surface water are "an indication of heavy crudes left behind," he said. Those materials "now will end up in the soil."
"We are going to have dozens, if not hundreds, of toxic sites," he said, "and they've got to be cleaned up."
Kevin O'Connor, who lives south of Milliken, said until now he was unaware of how much drilling has been done along the St. Vrain near his home. His main exposure to the industry is the oil- and gas-truck traffic that he encounters commuting to work in Denver.
On Thursday, as he walked over a damaged bridge to look at flood-wrecked vehicles, he said, "There's no way to plan for an event like this."
But, he said, the flood has shown that risks are high. "I think we've got better ways to create energy," he said.
Mark Jaffe: 303-954-1912, mjaffe@denverpost.com or twitter.com/bymarkjaffe
Pararescuemen and Combat Rescue Officers with the New York Air National Guard's 103rd Rescue Squadron, 106th Rescue Wing, supported by the Hawaii Air National Guard's 154th Wing, 204th Airlift Squadron, conduct personnel recovery training in order to test the new "Front Porch" flotation device for NASA's Orion Crew Module.
This training was conducted alongside NASA personnel at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii during Exercise SENTRY ALOHA March 6, 2017. A major element of this two week TDY is to participate in a joint NASA and Defense Department mission to evaluate recovery techniques and gear that will be used to recover NASA's Orion spacecraft, the next generation of American space vehicle.
US Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Muncy
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(view from mine vehicle, en route from the office to the working floor)
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These facilities are at the Continental Mine (= Continental Pit) in Butte, Montana. The town is known as the “Richest Hill on Earth” and "The Mining City". The Butte Mining District has produced gold, silver, copper, molybdenum, manganese, and other metals.
The area's bedrock consists of the Butte Quartz Monzonite (a.k.a. Butte Pluton), which is part of the Boulder Batholith. The Butte Quartz Monzonite ("BQM") formed 76.3 million years ago, during the mid-Campanian Stage in the Late Cretaceous. BQM rocks have been intruded and altered by hydrothermal veins containing valuable metallic minerals - principally sulfides. The copper mineralization has been dated to 62-66 million years ago, during the latest Maastrichtian Stage (latest Cretaceous) and Danian Stage (Early Paleocene). In the supergene enrichment zone of the area, the original sulfide mineralogy has been altered.
The Continental Mine was started in 1980 by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company - it is currently owned by Montana Resources. The mine targets a low-grade copper and molybdenum deposit on the eastern side of the Continental Fault, a major Basin & Range normal fault in the Butte area with about 3500 feet of offset. The mine's rocks consist of BQM with disseminated copper sulfides, plus copper- and molybdenum-bearing hydrothermal veins that intrude the BQM. Minerals at the site include chalcopyrite, molybdenite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, and cuprite. The latter four minerals are secondary copper minerals, produced by alteration of the primary copper sulfides.
When I visited in 2010, the Continental Mine was making 50,000 to 52,000 tons of ore each day. This mine can operate down to an ore grade of 0.1% copper. Most of the mineralization is disseminated copper, but veins are also present. Two stages of mineralization occurred in the Butte area - a porphyry copper system and a main stage system with large veins. The bottom of the porphyry copper system is ~ less than 12,800 feet below the surface. Veins peter out at 5600 to 5800 feet below the surface. At the Continental Mine, veins are small - they're veinlets less than 6 inches wide.
Mining is done 24 hours a day, 365 to 366 days per year. There's 1 to 2 days of down time at the mill. During those days, mining stops and waste material is moved. The ore:waste ratio is 8:10 (= strip ratio). The alluvial overburden consists of 7 paleosol horizons, including some caliches - the lime content results in an average pH of 8. The caliche material can be used to treat acidic materials.
This mine has 14 shovels and 15 trucks. A large Bucyrus shovel can load a 240-ton truck in three passes. The mine's benches are forty feet tall. Blasting is done with ANFO - ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. 0.65 pounds of explosives are used per ton of rock. The mine uses ~45 megawatts of power per day, which is about the same as the city of Butte itself.
Continental Mine ores are crushed in two stages. The crushed ores are then sent to the mill, where they are ground down to the fineness of talcum powder. Flotation and lime are used in procesing. Sulfides are collected. 1% of the mined material goes to the concentrator. 99% of mined material becomes tailings. The tailings powder is wet (33% solid and the rest is water) and piped uphill to a pond. The tailings pond water has a pH of 10. Water from the pond is recycled to make tailings slurry. 27 million gallons a day enters the pond. An earthen dam around the pond is designed to withstand a powerful earthquake.
Copper and molybdenum concentrates produced at the Continental Mine are not smelted locally - they are not even smelted in America. Concentrates are sold around the world, where material is smelted and the metals are produced. America shipping rocks overseas and buying back the finished product is the behavior of an underdeveloped country - America is not interested in smelting anymore - a sad reality.
"An ore deposit is a mine if it can stand total mismanagement and still make money."
This graceful young Hawaiian lad was surfing on a piece of plywood...that's right, almost no flotation, no fins, nothing but some small surf and a flat piece of plywood. Beautiful and amazing.
Such a tedious process to cook this stuff!
This fish maw was quite thick, about 7mm when dehydrated.
1. Soak overnight to rehydrate. The texture at this stage is rubbery, but not sticky.
2. 出水 Blanch in boiling water with slices of ginger. I didn't have ginger, so I substituted orange peel and spring onion, both of which are commonly used in Chinese cooking to get rid of fishy smells. After blanching, the collagen is starting to be release, with the fish maw slightly sticky to the touch.
3. Boil in chicken or pork soup until tender. In this case, 2 hours in a vacuum pot wasn't enough, so I simmered it for another hour and a half.
Apart from boiling chicken in the soup, I also added ginger, and 红枣 Chinese red dates. After 2 hours in the vacuum pot, the soup had been tainted with a slight fishiness and a musty gamey flavour. To counter this, I used a tablespoon of white peppercorns, cracked, and some 陈皮 dried mandarin peel, all in a muslin bag, and added it to the soup for the final hour and a half. The resulting soup was nice and peppery, a typical style of soup used to cook pig stomach.
The final texture of the fish maw was softer than marshmallow, barely keeping it's form. It shouldn't be chewy with the bite of soft pasta.
USMC Executive Flight Detachment HMX-1 Nighthawks VH-34D/HUS-1Z Seahorse BuNo 147201 with flotation gear, before September 1962.
Sun 27 June 2010 - Margate Raft Race from Nayland Rock to Harbour. - The Bay, Margate Main Sands. - Hartsdown Technical College 6th to finish, on their rather makeshift looking vessel.
Members of the Coast Guard conduct ice rescue training by reeling in a simulated survivor in the water on a MARSARS Ice Rescue Safety Shuttle Sled at U.S. Coast Guard Station Alexandria Bay, New York, March 16, 2021. The Coast Guard Station provides law enforcement, search and rescue, as well as training throughout the surrounding areas up to the U.S./Canada border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Bernardo Fuller)
Iveco, an acronym for Industrial Vehicles Corporation, is an Italian industrial vehicle and bus manufacturing company based in Turin, Italy, and entirely controlled by Fiat Industrial Group.
Iveco was incorporated on January 1, 1975, with the merger of five different brands: Fiat Veicoli Industriali (with headquarters in Turin, Italy), OM (Brescia, Italy), Lancia Veicoli Speciali (Italy), Unic (France) and Magirus-Deutz (Germany).
This IVECO Trakker is a 6x6 version and is destined to be operating somewhere in Africa or the Middle East looking at the wide section flotation tyres.
The tyres fitted are Michelin X 24 R 20.5 XS - these are approximately € 2,700 each.
Kids: Allan, and Mattie with old style chidren's life jackets, and Greg. Johnson outboard motor: Pete had Johnson franchise for Belmont County.
Styrofoam dock supports (white blocks in water at left under metal rigging of dock): two feet wide, four feet long, and two feet deep. Stryrofoam attached to lower part of metal dock rigging by two foot poles using stove bolts. Adventure working on these. Now, closed flotation devices are bought commercially, and usually result in a dock that is less tippy than this 1976 dock. Type II Near-Shore Buoyant Vests still used today at Lake. Were these filled with Kapok?
Great criticism, thanks. Date was probably 1980. DVD Foster (4 of 292)
S65-18645 (23 March 1965) --- Navy swimmers are shown attaching a flotation collar to the Gemini-Titan 3 (GT-3) spacecraft during recovery operations following the successful flight. A helicopter hovers in the background. Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young are still in the spacecraft.
2. She & Him is a recent obsession for me. I almost can't imagine a different voice singing that song.
3. Lots of powerful voices on this CD. About as important as Simone's voice on this track is the mind-blowing brass section, and the string section frames the whole thing really well.
4. Off Jukebox, I don't who she's covering here. I can't understand the chorus, either. Something about the 4th of July. But she's so IN this song.
6. These kids. Here's the deal. Two Mexicans in metal bands meet each other in Europe on different tours, decide to play acoustic guitar together. I think their self-titled album is their third.
8. I have weird relationship with Cake. I like 'em okay, they're nothing amazing, except when they are. The lyrics on this track are twisted, but they're laid over this jaunty little bluegrass tune that seems to jump of the bed of a truck and turn into a great solo.
9. There's a whole album of these: Beatles covers by Japanese bands. Shit is hilarious. Usually they're played exactly like the originals, but often enough the lyrics are replaced with that language.
10. Danger Mouse did a nice damn job with those guys. I can't get over the background vocals in this song. They climb into this one creepy effect real smoothly.
11. Been in love with these kids for a while. They're part of the whole Broken Social Scene collective. I prefer their sound over the Scene's though. It's dirtier. More 'broken,' ironically.
12. Favorite artist. Dude loves on some Velvet Underground. Slept on their manager's couch for a while, I guess. Tried to make it in the same scene. Didn't happen, he went back to Massachusetts, started the Modern Lovers, did that for a few years, then went on to make a few solo records.
13. Favorite artist OF LATE. Everything I find out about Neko Case gets me going harder. Her lyrics are almost always really descriptive, yet you never get to a point where you can figure out exactly what she's talking about. She puts these images up against each other, and they seem disjointed, but work so well when she pipes up over those guitars.
14. Mark Ronson's the guy who produced a bunch of stuff on Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen's big albums. Under his own name, he uses them to record covers of a few contemporary songs, from Morrissey's "Stop Me" to Britney Spears' "Toxic." Great sound, very danceable. I feel like this is the best example on the album of a song whose sound matches its message.
15. They toured with the Beastie Boys once, to little fanfare. Their album "Since I Left You" has over 900 samples, all spliced and mixed as if without any especial effort. Crazy shit ensues.
16. The frontman of this group, whatever his name is, happens to be a friend of the Arcade Fire. A week or two before their first big tour, he was asked to put together a band and record an album, so that they could join the Fire on the road. Pretty good album. Took me a while to get into, though. Guy's voice is crazy.
17. From "Alice," the play he co-wrote about "Alice in Wonderland." It is every bit as depressing to me as "Berlin" but it sounds better. I feel like this song is a cute (for lack of a better word) vignette of love in old age.
18. I'd hear this on 97.9 and think "This is too good to be on pop radio." So I grabbed it.
21. Becky Marino says he's the greatest living lyricist in the world. I about believe it. I probably shouldn't say that upfront, it'll give you great expectations. But it's on the table. The album has all these references to Joan of Arc, Laurel & Hardy, dragons, the whole bit, all weaving in and out of each other. Very entertaining.
22. The original version of the song covered by Mark Ronson. The saxophone up against that guitar riff FUCKING ENDS ME.
Recovery of Gemini 4 spacecraft and astronauts. Views include Astronaut
James A. McDivitt, command pilot of the Gemini 4 space flight, sitting in
life raft awaiting pickup by helicopter from the recovery ship, the
aircraft carrier U.S.S. Wasp (33490); Navy frogmen stand on the flotation
collar of the Gemini 4 spacecraft during recovery operations (33491).
I deferred gluing down the port and starboard cockpit sole sections until I was ready for cockpit work. A athwartship glue ledger is required where the sole meets the pilothouse bulkhead. Without the center plywood sole in place (covers the gas tank) this ledger would be a wicked trip hazard. With the center sole in place I will probably have to duck my head when entering/leaving the pilot house.
Contradicting my approach and even with the cockpit free of soles, I snagged my foot under the pilothouse sole when entering the cabin and fell hard on my left hip. Six months elapsed before this hip was free of any residual pain. I always find a way to borrow trouble.
Next step is rolling on three coats of epoxy to waterproof the cavities between the longitudinal bulkheads and then I install flotation foam.
I can't imagine building a Bluejacket without having the transom's outboard engine opening cut out to allow easy thus safer boarding into the cockpit.
THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN WHO COME TO CITYGARDEN IS THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THEIR CAREGIVERS. Playing in or near water or on sculpture is inherently dangerous. Common sense and caution must be used by caregivers carrying out their responsibility. It is also expected that adults visiting Citygarden will treat it and one another with respect, thereby maintaining an atmosphere which provides enjoyment for all.
Citygarden Guidelines
• No skateboarding, bike riding, roller-skates, segways, in-line skates and other similar conveyances in the park.
• No climbing on the waterfall or the limestone wall.
• No barbecue grills or other picnic furniture are allowed in the site.
• Playing in the Lower Basin and the Boat Basin is allowed only when Park Monitors are on duty, generally between Memorial Day and Labor Day. (The Spray Plaza is open between April 1st and November 1st, weather permitting.) Small children are required to wear swim diapers.
• No flotation devices or toys are allowed.
• No private events are allowed, except those within the Terrace View cafe.
• No glass containers.
• No commercial photography that requires anything more than a hand-held camera.
The Block 10 mine, one of the original BHP leases, was floated as the BHP Block 10 Co. Ltd in 1888. A concentration mill was erected at the mine in the 1890s to treat sulphide ore. Underground subsidence seriously affected the mill and, as a result, a new mill was erected on this hill in 1903, about 600 metres from the mine.
An aerial ropeway, the first at Broken Hill, was completed in 1904. This transported broken ore from the mine to a large storage bin above the mill. The mill cost £50 000 and could treat 3500 tons of ore per week.
The mine produced 2.5 million tons of ore and paid £1.5 million in dividends up to 1923 when it and the mill closed and were purchased by BHP. The mine was reworked by Broken Hill South Ltd between 1946 and 1960. Much of the mine site is now covered by overburden dumps from modern open-cut operations.
The concrete foundations on site are the remnants of the Block 10 concentration mill erected in 1903. The mill, designed by Captain John Warren and containing many of his inventions, was the first all electric mill in Broken Hill.
The aerial ropeway delivered broken ore from the mine to a storage bin above the mill. Broken ore was fed to crushing rolls and then passed to cylindrical trommels and hydraulic classifiers for sizing. Subsequent treatment consisted of wet concentration by jigs, Wilfley tables and vanners. These relied on specific gravity to separate the heavier lead and silver minerals from the zinc minerals. The resultant concentrate contained about two-thirds of the lead and one-half of the silver in the original ore, but very little zinc.
Flotation units were added to the mill in 1910 to produce a zinc concentrate from the tailings. Combined gravity-flotation concentration mills were standard at Broken Hill until after 1930 when the first all-flotation plants were installed.
Source: City Of Broken Hill.
A Coast Guardsman prepares to conduct ice rescue training by screwing an anchor point into the ice for attaching a rope at U.S. Coast Guard Station Alexandria Bay, New York, March 16, 2021. The Coast Guard Station provides law enforcement, search and rescue, as well as training throughout the surrounding areas up to the U.S./Canada border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Bernardo Fuller)
A Coast Guardsman conducts ice rescue training by communicating with his teammates to help pull in a simulated survivor in the water at U.S. Coast Guard Station Alexandria Bay, New York, March 16, 2021. The Coast Guard Station provides law enforcement, search and rescue, as well as training throughout the surrounding areas up to the U.S./Canada border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Bernardo Fuller)
New styles of Personal Flotation Devices can be purchased at your local sporting goods store. They start around $60.
FWC photo by Tim Donovan
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To replace various helicopters in service at the time, namely the SH-34 Seahorse, the US Navy awarded Sikorsky a contract to develop a helicopter that would combine several roles into one airframe: hunter/killer antisubmarine warfare, cargo transport, and search and rescue. It would also have to be capable of amphibious operations and had to be able to operate from smaller ships as well as aircraft carriers. Sikorsky’s HSS-2 Sea King was the response, and it first flew in March 1959. The HSS-2 had a distinctive “boat” hull for water landings, including flotation bags in the sponsons, good visibility from the cockpit, and a folding tail section for stowage. In the antisubmarine role, the HSS-2 was equipped with a dipping sonar unreeled from the forward hull, 21 sonobuoys, and a MAD “bird” capable of being deployed from the port sponson. In 1962, the type’s designation was changed to SH-3A.
The SH-3 would remain in US Navy service for the next 50 years. During Vietnam, it operated in plane guard duties for carriers, the first aircraft to launch and the last to recover; it also served in SAR duties from the carriers and smaller ships, flying over water and often over land to rescue downed pilots. In this role, the SH-3 is probably responsible for the rescue of more people than any other aircraft type. Dedicated SAR helicopters often were equipped with heavy or light machine guns. Other versions were converted to UH-3 utility helicopters (for vertical replenishment and light cargo duties) and VH-3 VIP transports. The latter were the last Sea Kings in US service.
The US Navy began replacing the aging SH-3 following the First Gulf War, with ASW/SAR SH-3s mostly gone from fleet service by 1997. Cargo and utility variants remained in service until 2006. Besides its service in the US armed forces, Sea Kings were heavily exported to 17 air forces, including license-built versions made by Westland (Sea Kings), United Aircraft of Canada (CH-124), Agusta (AS-61), and Mitsubishi (HSS-2); foreign variants are used both in traditional roles for the Sea King, as well as antishipping duties, troop transports, minesweeping, and even airborne early warning. It remains in service worldwide.
Dad snapped this shot of three Sea Kings of HS-4 ("Black Knights") warming up for a mission on the forward flight deck of the USS Yorktown (CVS-10), probably in 1965 or 1966. At this point, the US Navy was still transitioning from the earlier engine gray scheme used by helicopters to the easier to see white over gray colors used between 1965 and the late 1980s.
The helicopter in the foreground is "Fetch 65," used as a backup helicopter in several of the Apollo recovery missions. HS-4 was usually assigned to retrieve the Apollo command modules after splashdown, beginning with Apollo 8 in 1968; the Yorktown was the recovery carrier for that mission, and Dad participated in the tracking party. At this point, he was on lookouts on a somewhat dreary day off the coast of California.
EDIT: In September 2019, another veteran from the Yorktown posted a very similar picture, enough that I worried he had stolen the picture from here on Flickr. He hadn't--he had taken a picture about a minute after Dad snapped this picture. A friend pointed out that you can see the other sailor raising his camera in the mirror in the foreground.
Two sailors, two positions on the Yorktown--nearly the same picture...and neither of them knew it until 50 years later.
The last to leave his ship, Apollo 17 Commander, Eugene A. Cernan is hoisted up to a recovery helicopter, concluding not only his mission, but the Apollo Manned Lunar Landing Program.
A Coast Guardsman simulates being a survivor in the water during ice rescue training, while the Coast Guard station’s dog named Brizo watches over him at U.S. Coast Guard Station Alexandria Bay, New York, March 16, 2021. This station is unique, in that it has a dog as its mascot. Brizo is named after the ancient Greek goddess known as the protector of mariners, sailors, and fishermen. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Bernardo Fuller)
Regent's annual Primary Swim Gala took place on Friday 16th March. The day began with Year 1 and 2 students competing in a series of fun relay events involving various flotation devices and balls. Yellow House gained the most points for the Year 1s and it was Red House who took the lead for the Year 2s. Next it was the turn of our Year 5 and 6 students, who competed using more traditional swim strokes. This was a hotly contested affair, with all the Houses gaining lots of points. However it was Yellow House who were victorious for the Year 5’s and 6’s combined. By the afternoon it was time for the Year 3 and 4 students to complete their races. Once again the points were shared fairly evenly amongst the Houses. However it was the Green Crocodiles who collected the most wins and points to go towards their entire House total score. Once all the points were added up Green House raised the Swim House Cup aloft to rapturous applause from the students in their House. A very well done to all the students who took part; a fun and very wet day was had by all.
Members of the Coast Guard conduct ice rescue training with a simulated survivor in the water at U.S. Coast Guard Station Alexandria Bay, New York, March 16, 2021. The Coast Guard Station provides law enforcement, search and rescue, as well as training throughout the surrounding areas up to the U.S./Canada border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Bernardo Fuller)
A Motorboat and Airboat Safety Training was recently held at the Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota. Students received classroom training as well as field training in the use of personal flotation devices (PFDs), various motorized boats, trailers, and airboats. Students had to pass both a written exam and a practical exam where both safety and skills were demonstrated while running set up courses.
Photo Credit: Krista Lundgren/USFWS
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