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Rescue teams practice water landings in Kamchatka
Rescue teams practice water landings in Kamchatka
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Members of a search and rescue squad, a special-purpose firefighting and rescue unit, affiliated with the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s Main Directorate for Kamchatka , and the crew of an attached Mil Mi-8 helicopter, free-dropped on a body of water (without parachutes) and evacuated an “injured” person to safety, as per EMERCOM press service.During a training session on Lake Khalaktyrskoye, rescue workers simulated a shipwreck and used an SLG-300 winch to hoist several “survivors” drifting on the surface to safety. A flight engineer extended the winch’s boom outside the helicopter and lowered a specialist as close to an “injured” person as possible; this can be a formidable task in adverse local weather. The “injured” person latched himself to the rescue worker, and they were hoisted aboard the helicopter.
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Rescue teams practice water landings in Kamchatka
Members of a search and rescue squad, a special-purpose firefighting and rescue unit, affiliated with the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s Main Directorate for Kamchatka , and the crew of an attached Mil Mi-8 helicopter, free-dropped on a body of water (without parachutes) and evacuated an “injured” person to safety, as per EMERCOM press service.
During a training session on Lake Khalaktyrskoye, rescue workers simulated a shipwreck and used an SLG-300 winch to hoist several “survivors” drifting on the surface to safety. A flight engineer extended the winch’s boom outside the helicopter and lowered a specialist as close to an “injured” person as possible; this can be a formidable task in adverse local weather. The “injured” person latched himself to the rescue worker, and they were hoisted aboard the helicopter.
“In reality, this is one of the most difficult objectives because numerous negative factors, including winds, currents and steep waves, can hamper rescue operations,” Head of the Search and Rescue Squad of the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s Main Directorate for Kamchatka, Sergei Markov, noted.
