Offscreen Voice: May Day, May Day, May Day.
Ilschner: The Shallow Water Egress Trainer,
what it does is it simulates a helicopter ditching,
where it impacts the water.
Because a helicopter is top heavy,
its engine sits in the top.
When it hits the water,
it's going to flip upside down before it sinks.
So what that does is we allow them to get all suited up
in their survival equipment with their survival bottle, their sea bottle.
They hop in.
Because the SWET trainer's top heavy, it will flip upside down.
When it's upside down they have to go through survival acronyms
that we've given them, some other training.
And utilize that sea bottle so that you'd be familiarized with breathing.
The standard bottle will last for about four to five minutes,
depending on the individual.
So they have up to four to five minutes inside that training
before their oxygen's going to run out.
That's a long time for them to be able to solve a problem.
That's why we want to give them that air bottle,
because without that air, the average individual,
unless they're practicing on their breath,
is probably not going to be able to get five minutes.
So that gives them the extra time and survivability
to egress a helicopter, should it crash.