Team Seadation

Here's the deal,......as a flight mechanic (which is the guy that does the hoisting) I'll tell ya that it is much easier to hoist to and from a vessel when it is underway. Before we conduct the hoisting evolution a hoist brief is conducted, along with aother information, one of the pieces of information that is passed to the vessels captain is the speed and direction that we want them to maintain. The reason this type of hoisting evolution is much easier is the fact that when the vessel is underway it doesnt get blown all around by the rotor wash. It has absolutely nothing to do with static electricity. There is the possibilty of building up static electricity no matter what type of hoist it is. Once the basket or other rescue device is on deck, the static is discharged and its safe to touch the rescue device. I have seen people get knocked on their ass by touching the rescue device before it makes contact with the vessel, which is also a warning that is part of the hoist brief (some people just cant follow directions!) So to sum it all up, when our helo is making the same speed on the same course as the vessel, it is just a much easier evolution to conduct, and its a lot safer too. When it comes to static electricity, Ive also seen it shock the rescue swimmer when hoisting him to the water. On tis particular case he was 7-10 feet from the water and it shocked the piss out of him and it was very visible because it was about 10pm....Kinda cool, unless you're the swimmer....LOL

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dht

Dont mean to get OT, but how are you fishing for spanish? Ive been catching them nonstop this summer. They were small at the beginning of summer, but lately theyve all be pretty big.

patrickg

I'm not a fan of them, but they have been thick this summer in MS. A cocahoe on a red jig head under a popping cork has been the ticket. Throw it directly into a school and you are guaranteed either a fish or a cut leader.

dht

We usually just catch them when we are catchin crazy fish or pogies. Usually anything we throw, caught on a sabiki once which I thought was odd. If we try for them we just throw a spoon into a school of baitfish and catch them.