Weather Underground
The Florida Sea Base is the FIRST location to host an Instructor Certification Course for the new BSA Wilderness First Aid course. I am one of 22 persons soon to be certified BSA Wilderness First Aid instructors. By this time tomorrow ww will be prepared to start offering BSA Wilderness First Aid certifications. Yahoo!!
The “mild” cold front I commented on yesterday grew a bit overnight. I was up around 0300 adding lines to the boat. The wind is still howling from the west and it is very chilly on the dock. Still, we are better off than much of the country. EVERYONE I have talked with says this is the coldest winter they can recall in the Keys. Brrrr.
Milly McCoy put in another day at the PADI Instructor Development Course at Flakeys. And GREAT NEWS — Ellen and Capt. Dennis Wyatt are back at the Florida Sea Base. I am SO glad they are here. Ellen and Capt. Dennis keep everyone laughing.
Speaking of laughing, I would like to share an experience from this evening’s BSA Wilderness First Aid Instructor Training Course. Tonight we were doing CPR. They had 10 adult dummies one the floor and 10 infant dummies on a table. So half of the class were on their knees working with adult dummies while the other half were standing working with the infant dummies. You had to be there to appreciate this part, but our good Divemaster friend “Ranger Joe” kept ripping the head off the infant dummy while performing the choking hazard skills. That was funny but this part is better. I am fat and old and have a bad leg. So kneeling on the floor is very difficult for me. But it was time to cowboy up and save a dummies life so on the floor I went. I tried to get on the back row but wound up on the next to the back row with another rescuer right behind me. I was okay in the compression position, but I had a little gas so everytime I leaned all the way down to give rescue breaths I farted. So it went like this: compressions 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30, FART, 2 rescue breaths, compressions 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30, FART, 2 rescue breaths, etc for five cycles. We are lucky that we didn’t have to do a real resuscitation for the poor person behind me. Because we were doing these skills in unison, every time I was bent all the way forward farting, the person behind me had their face very close to my ”gas producing area”. It was sad, but I was about to pass out from trying not to laugh. The instructor said to have fun, but I don’t think this is what he meant. At my age we were all lucky that it was only gas!
With that said, it is very much past my bed time. Good night.