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.
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