Thursday, September 18, 2008

BOSET......

What does BOSET means? It is Basic Offshore Safety and Emergency Training. This is mandatory for me to get my offshore passport. Yea, means I'm going offshore - during raya. Sad man. But it's alright, I'm looking at the bright side. I'm learning stuff, and I'm getting allowance for it! hehe

I don't know why, but I feel like jotting the training down here. I find this training rather amusing. The training had been cramp down from a 3 day course to 2 days. So everything was like a rush. Started out with some funky helicopter escape thing. Well, since I'll be going offshore, sometimes I'll be going to the oil rigs as well. And I'll be taking helicopter. (Actually I can't wait to board a helicopter... kekeke) So since it's like that, I have to learn how to escape the helicopter IF it crashes. Things I get myself into. Sigh.. haha also, I have to learn sea survival skills. Just in case anything explodes in the middle of the ocean, I'll have to throw myself overboard, learn how to keep warm, how to board a life raft, how to signal search and rescue teams, learn how not to drown, learn how not to hit people, and most of all, learn to be selfish. Hahah something amusing that I find in this training is they keep telling you to be selfish. You see a guy drowning and you have your safety jacket, leave that guy alone, let him drown. That's what they tell us. haha today's fire lessons, in a burning platform, if you have some breathing system, and a guy is suffocating and grasp you legs asking for help, kick that guy away and leave him be. hhahahaha things they teach us man. But in a way, it is true la. Like the drowning case, if you decided to help, you might drown too. Apparently, everytime a person is drowning, he is given a new skill. It is called the death lock. For example, a kid is drowning in the river. His group of friends are at the river side looking at him drown and they panic. One guy decided to help his drowning friend. He went down to try to save his friend. When he reaches his drowning friend, little did he know about this death lock. His drowning friend 'death-locked' him. So now we have two people drowning. His other two friends decided to help too. So they went to them, and got 'death-locked' too. And that's how you get the news of 4 boys drowning in the river quite some time back. Whereas for the fire case, if you help him, the breathing system might not be able to support two people. So it's double trouble! So save yourself, get the emergency response team to save that guy. So worst is one fella die only mah. That's what my instructor said. Wahahah

So yea, that's what I've been learning in this training. How to be selfish. Haha but besides that, I learn how to escape a capsized helicpoter, how to board a raft, how to stay alive in a drifted raft, hoping someone would save me, I learned how to fight fire, (but the basic type la, oh and plus, it was my first time ever using a fire estinguisher, shows how save I am, don't simple play with fire, wahahahaha)

Well, I'm home now, since they are all praying. Have to leave now for the CPR lessons! Yay! Hopefully I can go whack someone's chest till he wakes up. Wakakakakaakak

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Updates*

So now I've completed my BOSET, and I'm so called qualified to have my offshore passport. Really weird. I slept in most of the theory classes. And I'm qualified. Wow.

Okay, I'll tell the last bit of my training - the CPR lessons. HAha it was super funny. The class that I'm in, have about 40 people, and only 2 females. The instructor for CPR is a lady. But it was alright. That was not the problem. When I got into the class, the first thing that greet me was three manikins. These 'humans' are the 'people' that are in need of CPR. But we were told to not bother about these manikins first, and to attend the theoretical lessons first. Like usual, slept in class loh. Wakakak

But here's the amusing part. So after the theoretical lessons, we moved on to the practial lessons. And we were to do the CPR on the manikins I've mentioned. To my amusement, the manikin was female, with boobs and all, and she's called Little Anne! So the instructor showed us how to do CPR on the manikin, and this is how it looks.

So imagine doing that on a girl. And here I was, in the middle of the room full of guys. And now, imagine the situation of the room. Hahah and to make things worst, the instructor said, 'don't put your fingers on to the chest, it'll hurt the ribs!' And then she squeezed the boob. Hmm.... I don't know what she was thinking, but it definitely got the room excited.... Not me of course. I was more amused on how all these guys were excited! I'm pretty sure they are all older than me, maybe about late twenties? And they should be married! So why so excited about a professional instructor, telling us not to put the fingers onto the chest in prevention of hurting the ribs of the other person? Hmmm... maturity, maturity. Ahahahah

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