Jetty drill 2022 with Fire Department

 

With the coming of warmer weather, it was time again to start training for the upcoming summer season. Monday, May 2, 2022, members of the Point Pleasant Beach Dive Team and First Aid squad had a joint drill with the fire departments of Point Pleasant Beach on jetty rocks.

   

  It started with a review of all the equipment the squad uses on jetty rescues. With the new members and the old hands everyone was ready to go.

After the review it was down to the rocks where their help would be needed to remove a patient from the jetty. With a dive team member as a patient the firemen secured the patient to one of the many devices, we use for moving. 

  

 Then it was the moving of the patient a cross the rocks. The firemen formed a line and pasting the patient hand to hand down the line. As the patient goes past a fireman, he would safely move to the other end of the line and keep passing the patient across the jetty.

As the patient was going down the slope of the jetty safety lines were put on the top and bottom to help slow the patient down.

This time a diver in full gear was the second victim. Since this is a popular dive site this could and has happened at this spot. The boats going in and out of the inlet have been known to throw pretty big wakes and if a diver is coming out on the rocks they could be thrown into the rocks.

 After the EMT checks out the patient it’s time to strip the dive gear, (the firemen were shown how to remove the gear).

 With the patient on a Miller man backboard and safety lines tied off it’s time to pull the patient up the rocks  

  Working slowly the diver is brought to the top of the sea wall and moved down to where it could be carried.

 

Once the diver is in an area where he can be carried safely, the backboard is turned and removed from the top of the seawall and carried to the ambulance.

  The First Aid squad and Dive Team would like to thank The Fire Department for coming out and training with us so when the time comes (and it will) we’ll be ready.

The beach clean 2022

Sunday, April 30, 2022, the dive team was on hand for the beach and inlet clean up sponsored by Board Dash, Captain Bills and Reds lobster pot. The team was to clean up along the seawall and others were on the beach and jetty and all over Point Pleasant beach.

 Due to the tides the team was in the water early, Tommy L and Chris T were dropped in the water at Captain Bills and drifted down the inlet and Jim Sr and Jim Jr dropped in halfway down the inlet. As Chris, Tommy and the Jims finish their dive, debris started coming up, a long drainpipe, long pieces of wood, cans a car tire and a large piece of rubber hose was just a few things recovered.

Joe (OJ) and Chet dropped in last and work for almost an hour to recover a large lobster trap from the bottom. It took a lift bag and some digging before it came free from the bottom. It took all of our surface support (Rich, Sue, Perry) to pull it up and out of the water.

   

By the time the team was finished this section of the inlet was pretty well cleared of debris. The team checked in at clean up headquarters at Red Lobster Pot parking lot to let them know we were done. It was an outstanding job by everyone, there were two full dumpsters with many more full bags of debris sitting on the ground.

  

Thank you to everyone for letting the team be part of clean up and to everyone for working so hard to make this a better place for everyone