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How did everyone find the basic 3 day fire-fighting course? We just completed it this week and I had no idea how physically exerting it is as well as hot and pretty scary! However, I would not hesitate to do it again - for the extra experience and to try and get everything perfect. What were your experiences?
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i quite enjoyed myself, the 4 day advanced one was better though
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Is the advanced course compulsory later in college training?Comment
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yep, need it for STCW 95Comment
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Did you not read the notes supplied explaining what to bring? The notes I got detailed how you will be doing heavy physical work and will be signing a disclaimer about being in good physical health. It's also usual to get a bit of an explanation from a lecturer beforehand.'... English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't
just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages
down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for
new vocabulary.' - James Davis NicollComment
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Scary? Your fighting a controlled gas fire! I personally loved every minute of it!I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.....
All posts here represent my own opinion and not that of my employer.Comment
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Penfold/GuinnessMan yeah I did read the notes but words cannot fully explain getting out there and spending half an hour in a windowless simulated ship in the pitch black full of smoke, heat and fire! The lecturers were great and explained everything, don't get me wrong I totally loved it, it was the most intense thing I have ever done but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.Comment
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If the videos on fire training and sea survival skills are anything to go by it looks great.Comment
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RNR - you haven't done BSSC as part of training for your namesake service yet? For that you can add getting gassed and drowned to burned.
Are y'all at Shields? It's run at a college facility by lecturers? GCNS outsource it to Strathclyde Fire & Rescue who also rent out the facility to the RN. Handy if you were RFA (irrelevant now that RFA don't go to GCNS) because much of the kit is then the same as you meet at sea.Comment
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Steve, sorry to be such a noob but whats the BSSC? It doesn't ring a bell of courses we have done so far, I've done my PST as well. Shields has a seperate building on the river where all these short courses are undertaken. Instructors for the basic fire fighting course are seconded from Tyne and Wear Rescue, I know as well as us cadets from the college oil riggers etc are also trained here.Comment
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I can't remember what your involvement in the RNR is, or if you've mentioned it on here in detail, but I assume most reservists do BSSC. Basic Sea Survival Course at Whale Island. Covers some of the same ground as the MN version but with the addition of shipboard damage control and I think nuclear/biological/chemical warfare stuff. 5 day course. Maybe RNR only do it if they are drafted to a ship.Originally posted by RNRComment
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Ahhhh I'm not actaully in the Royal Naval Reserve Steve, my name on here relates to a nickname I used to have, I only realised after I signed up that RNR has an alternative meaning in maritime language! I am a MN deck cadet, sorry for the confusion!Comment
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Ah! dawg or another admin can probably change that for you, it's confusing!
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That would be useful as I can't seem to change it!Comment
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How does the advanced course differ to the basic?Comment
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