Hello, I know this is an old thread but I was sent. A link to it.
I'm building a Severn class model, I'm a serving crew member of the Dover lifeboat and I'm copying our lifeboat.
Poole is a must.
To answer if the pool can create waves, yes it can, as well as any weather situation they feel they want to throw at you.
The sea survival course that every crew member must take is as follows.
Four day course, the first two days are mainly theory days, with the going over of all lifeboats and what's on them and where.
The other days are spent in there pool learning how to right a capsized rib, also learning about self righting ribs (atlantic95) and using a life raft, how to set it up and get in or out of it.
The final test is a killer, this normally involves the best dinner and puddings the night before, and in the morning the biggest best fry up you can imagine. Can anyone guess what's going to happen next?
It's a morning out on a Severn class learning and doing fire drills an damn overboard drills. Then its back in the pool for a survival exercise. This means you jump into the worst waves and weather in the pool, so high waves and night time with loads of rain, you then spend about 45mins in a life raft until a man on a crane comes and plucks you out the raft.
Sea survival finished and lunch everywhere? Lol.
