urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pencey_prep Pencey Prep pencey_prep 2005-06-11T18:13:36Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pencey_prep:705 2005-06-11T18:13:36Z 2005-06-11T18:13:36Z sea survival shit-<br /><br />from about a month ago<br /><br />Or would be if you were stranded 100 miles from anywhere or anyone.<br /><br />I did the sea survival course at the College today, so when I go on the tall ships race if the ship sinks we all don't stand around wondering what to do, or jumping overboard hoping we don't die.<br /><br />Well all the technical stuff was boring...so lets just forget that.<br /><br />You have to climb in the raft with all the north sea storm simulations like the rain, 3 metre waves, lightning, gales, and totally dark. But first you need to step of a 5 metre high platform to get there. (It's totally odd jumping that far if you havn't before...you fall way to long and too far IMHO) But the life jacket reaches my elbows...so it's really hard to pull yourself up, cpupled with the fact that my knees are weak. So it's fun but weird, then you get "helicopter winched" out again, which is quite...odd really.<br /><br />I'm aching and I'm tired but it was fun. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pencey_prep:378 2005-01-23T20:54:33Z 2005-01-23T20:54:33Z I get to see, one of my favorite bands in the world on Tuesday at Newcastle university! I can't wait!