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Unit 8 members took part in a Safety and Fundraising afternoon at the Ladner Yacht Club on May 29th, with demonstrations of recovering people from the water, hot oxygen re-warming, VHF radio tips, and familiarization with our fast-response-craft (see the Gallery for pics). The Unit also participated in the Ladner MayDays parade on May 30th, handing out Safe Boating Guides and Bobby the Safety Boat colouring books, while walking the parade route with kids wearing PFDs riding in our fast-response-craft (see the Gallery for pics).

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Ladner MayDays Parade 2010 - Unit 8 sets up

MayDays Parade 2010 - Handing out boating safety information and colouring books
 

Ladner Yacht Club Safety Afternoon - Demonstrating the Oxygen re-warming system

Ladner Yacht Club Safety Afternoon - Man off the dock! - pulling someone to safety
 

Ladner Yacht Club Safety Afternoon - Setting up to parbuckle a person onto the dock

Ladner Yacht Club Safety Afternoon - Up he comes! - Parbuckling 101
 

Ladner Yacht Club Safety Afternoon - Almost up

Ladner Yacht Club Safety Afternoon -Man aboard
 

Delta Polar Bear Swim 2010 - Unit 8 arrives as safety boat

Delta Polar Bear Swim 2010 - Unit 8 patrols the perimeter
 

Delta Polar Bear Swim 2010 - Unit 8 stands by to seaward

Delta Polar Bear Swim 2010 - Unit 8 stands off in 2-3' surf

Delta Polar Bear Swim 2010 - The Beach and in-water crew with Delta Parks and Rec. staff

Delta Polar Bear Swim 2010 - One of the in-water crew mans the finish bell

Delta Polar Bear Swim 2010 - In they go!

Delta Polar Bear Swim 2010 - The Finish!

Fire at Sea! - A sailboat burns off Saturna Island - July 2009

Fire at Sea! - A sailboat burns off Saturna Island - July 2009

Tumbo Cliff Rescue! - Rescuers climbing to the scene

Tumbo Cliff Rescue! - A multi-agency rescue

Tumbo Cliff Rescue! - Cormorant circles ready to drop SARTechs

Tumbo Cliff Rescue! - Ready to lower the SARTechs

Tumbo Cliff Rescue! - A SARTech is lowered to the rescue scene

Tumbo Cliff Rescue! - Shielding the patient from the Cormorant rotor blast

Tumbo Cliff Rescue! - The patient is packaged and ready to airlift out

Tumbo Cliff Rescue! - The stokes with the patient is almost in the Cormorant

Trawler aground on a reef

Safety - flagging a nasty deadhead that could easily sink a boat

Pacing - A coxswain gives some instruction on pacing another boat (in this case, a 47' CCG Lifeboat), before starting the approach.

Pacing - the thrill of closing in to come alongside another boat at speed!

Boating Safety - Unit members deliver a boating safety talk to kids at a Delta elementary school. The more kids wear their PFDs, the more adults will as well!

Boating Safety - Bobbie the Safety Boat is always a hit with the kids

SAR Competition - line throwing contest

SAR Competition - testing navigation and chartwork skills

SAR Competition - Assessing a casualty in a First Aid excercise.

SAR Competition - First-aid skills are monitored and evaluated.

SAR Competition - a timed fire-pump excercise.

SAR Competition - getting the pump put together and started.

SAR Competition - The US Coast Guard deploy a Rescue Swimmer

SAR Competition - The US Coast Guard recover their Rescue Swimmer

It's a RHIOT - learning to recover from a capsized boat at Bamfield

It's a RHIOT - pacing the Lifeboat at Bamfield

Parbuckling at RHIOT

It's a RHIOT - a Delta member at Bamfield

A strange sense of motion

The Spirit of Delta IV - coming fast

Coming in with an alongside tow

Taking up the tow

Parbuckling - getting person out of the water

A bird's-eye view

The Polar bear swim is ready to go.

The Polar Bear swim - charge for the bell.

The Polar Bear Swim - Aux. 8 safety boat

The reflective is working!

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