Helicopter Underwater Escape Training

The simulator turns upside down in the pool - and the Sea Rescue volunteers must swim out.Four Sea Rescue Helicopter Unit (SRHU) crew members from Port Elizabeth traveled to Cape Town for a weekend of training with the local SRHU crew and some of the Cape NSRI stations.The weekend consisted with a training exercise hosted by Hout Bay and Kommetjie on Saturday and an advanced Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET) and pool training session at the Cape Peninsula University Technicon’s Granger Bay Survival Center.The HUET training simulates survival and escape from a helicopter ditching into the water. Trainees are required to be able to escape from a submerged 'Helicopter' and rescue any trapped crew.Rob Fine took the underwater pictures and Ernesta Swanepoel those above water.Please note that this course is run by the Cape Peninsula University Technicon’s Granger Bay Survival Center (CPUT). It is not a course offered by NSRI. CPUT Survival Centre can be contacted on 021 440 5700. Project maritime in Saldanha bay also does HUET training: 022 7140 614 Before the 'helicopter ditches.' The simulator is in the water and flooding. Time to swim out of the simulator. Sea Rescue volunteers swim out of the upside down simulator.Please note that this course is run by the Cape Peninsula University Technicon’s Granger Bay Survival Center (CPUT). It is not a course offered by NSRI. CPUT Survival Centre can be contacted on 021 440 5700. Project maritime in Saldanha bay also does HUET training: 022 7140 614