Department Training

[grumpie]

Good Evening, Its been a very long day for this old man. We towed a Chrysler Minivan over to the pit this morning at about 0800 hrs for dive training and pushed it out on to the ice, the ice was about 18-24 inches thick.
We got it out 100 feet on to the pit, we had a safe in the back, we push the safe a little south of the van and cut a hole in the ice and sank it.
The van has a baby seat in the back with a small child doll in it. we left all the windows in the van. we took a lot of pictures of it as it sank.
Its in about 30-40 feet of water, vis is about 3-4 feet.
We used it for training today. next week another SO will be using it. On  first week of April another SO
will be using it.
when every one gets done we will start using lift bags and such. By fall we will be doing lifts and rolls using different size bags.
I hope no one punches the windows out before fall.
grumpie........;