2011年1月9日 星期日

Suit system teaches sub escape

Suit system teaches sub escape


The escape trunk seals. Air inflates the clear hood of your escape suit as you see water flood the cramped chamber and rise above your head. An instructor watches you for signs of distress.

The hatch overhead springs open, revealing a 37-foot column of water through which you must now ascend.

That is the view from the bottom of the Navy’s only pressurized submarine escape trainer,chanel womenhandbags compact fluorescent light. where submarine officers and sailors in non-nuclear ratings go through a two-day course in the basics of water survival and submarine escape.The deck lighting bulb revolution nearly occurred back in the early 1990s. Since it opened in November 2009, 700 submariners have gone through the training, according to instructors.outdoor christmas decorations from PrestigeTime at discounted prices.

“We teach them all the mechanics of submarine escape,” Chief Navy Diver (DSW/SW) Raymond Parker, an instructor at the school, said. “Not just the gear that we use, but also the physiological hazards and stresses that are put on the human body.LED modules and module strings for accent lighting.”

The training includes classroom time and a medical screening, but centers on the facility’s $18 million, 20-foot diameter pool and a suit, known as the Mark 10, that is the submariner’s last resort. Orange, full-body, with a hood and clear visor, it looks like a cross between a diving drysuit and a biohazard suit.

Before egress from a disabled sub, a wearer plugs the tube in the suit’s arm to an air hose. Breathable air fills the ascent hood sealed to his face. This supply also provides the suit with 75 pounds of buoyancy, enough to ascend 625 feet in one minute.deck lights global replica watches cheap co jacob replica watch chopard watches replicas buy a replica watch.

The rugged suit, developed by the British Royal Navy and rated up to 600 feet, has a touch of James Bond to it. It’s designed to keep out water and is worn with a thermal suit underneath to prevent hypothermia. Attached to the thigh is a one-person life raft. Students learn how to handle the suit and the raft on the surface. To imitate a heavy sea in the tranquil pool, instructors flip over students on their rafts and teach them how to recover.

The next phase of the training adds pressure. Students who clear the medical exam are put under pressure, equivalent to a depth of 60 feet, in one of the facility’s hyperbaric chambers.

The training has risks, but students spend so little time actually underwater that they are unlikely to get the bends, as decompression sickness is known, said Lt. Seth O’Donnell, the facility’s medical officer. The most common problem students have is clearing their ears underwater, O’Donnell said.

The final test is the closest thing to an actual escape from a submerged boat that the Navy offers: a free ascent from an escape trunk at the pool’s bottom. Guided by instructors, a student in an escape suit climbs out of the flooded trunk. A diver asks whether he’s OK.

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