My highlight of the week: helicopter-under water escape training 🌊🚁 After returning from space, astronauts typically land with their spacecraft in the ocean. We are retrieved by an incredible team of Flight Surgeons and Crew Support Officers, who pick us up by helicopter and bring us safely back to land. And as always, we also prepare for things that might go wrong there. Training to escape from a capsized helicopter is essential not only for astronauts, but for the entire crew involved. In th

On Friday half our team went through helicopter underwater escape training. Hopefully we'll never need it, but we do spend a lot of time flying over water so it's an important skill for us to have! Video:Jake Osborne | Kākāpō Recovery

This is not your everyday training and definitely not for the faint-hearted! Five specialist rappel dispatchers from the Ovens and Heyfield fire districts and Melbourne recently completed Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET). Attendees’ skills and knowledge were put to the test in a life-like simulation of a helicopter in-water landing, where they were required to safely exit the simulator when it was fully inverted. This training equips our people with the skills they need in the event

Who recognises this?! The Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET) is an element of the offshore survival courses - Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training (BOSIET) and the refresher Further Offshore Emergency Training (FOET). The BOSIET can also be delivered digitally at our facility in Aberdeen and Esbjerg. QUESTION: How many times have you done your survival? For more information or to book your survival courses, click here: BOSIET 👉 https://www.maersktraining.com/courses/