At 12:52 PM 7/3/2009, craig cowan wrote: >effective margin of the traditional method ROFL -- for me the "traditional method" is back pressure / arm lift, aka the Schaefer method IIRC. I grew up with a ~1942 Bluejacket's Manual (US Navy handbook for enlisted men, apparently also given to Naval Academy midshipmen), read it all several times before I was ten, I think. I knew how to swim through burning oil! And use a Navy Standard fogging nozzle on a three-inch line, and run a P250 Handy Billy dewatering pump with an eductor! And clear a gas mask! I brought the sucker to boot camp -- big mistake. I made lots of mistakes in boot camp, and later. >Actually some of the time now, they say just hook them up to an AED Let me guess...Automatic Electrodefibrillating Device -- am I close? I bet that doesn't work very well when the heart is stopped, rather than fibrillating. >Times have changed. >I'm way too young to be saying that.... Aren't we all, brother... -- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '89 Po' White Star "Scamp" |
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