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As the summer season gets started the need for a coordinated
response for any emergency’s happening on the jetty was full filled Thursday as
the dive team held a drill for the life guards and the first aiders. This is a
drill the team try’s to hold every year to keep everyone’s skills sharp.
It starts out with
going over search techniques for looking a lost person in the jacks, the jacks
at the end of the jetty is a popular spot for fishermen. But people don’t know
how dangerous they are. It is very slippery and many deep holes that you can
fall into and not be seen from above and that is why we need to have these
drills. So everyone can get use to working in a confined space.
The life guards and
the first aider’s were put in team of three and four and told to search the
jacks. All the scenarios were based on past events that have happened on the
jetty. One just a few years ago when two cousins came down to the jetty to see
what a hurricane looked like and got washed off the jetty. They were recovered
the next day using the same search techniques that were being used in today’s
drill.
Once the victims
were found the first aiders took over and got the victim ready to be lifted out
the jacks. With the life guards and first aiders working together the victim were put on back boards and
strapped down and moved out to where they could be lifted up to the top of the
jetty and moved to the ambulances.
It’s not always
easy! One victim was so well hidden that it took thirty five minutes find and
recover her.
New Jersey TV-12 was also on the jetty for the drill and was able to obtain some great shots and nice footage for a News special that ran that day....
With the victims
found and the sun slowly going down it was time to end the drill. The life
guards, first aiders and the dive team are ready for whatever the season
brings. Hopefully we will not have to put this training to the test, but we
will be ready if we have to!
Chief Dive Chet Nesley
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