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Offscreen Voice: May Day, May Day, May Day.

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Ilschner: The Shallow Water Egress Trainer,

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what it does is it simulates a helicopter ditching,

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where it impacts the water.

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Because a helicopter is top heavy,

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its engine sits in the top.

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When it hits the water,

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it's going to flip upside down before it sinks.

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So what that does is we allow them to get all suited up

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in their survival equipment with their survival bottle, their sea bottle.

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They hop in.

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Because the SWET trainer's top heavy, it will flip upside down.

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When it's upside down they have to go through survival acronyms

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that we've given them, some other training.

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And utilize that sea bottle so that you'd be familiarized with breathing.

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The standard bottle will last for about four to five minutes,

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depending on the individual.

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So they have up to four to five minutes inside that training

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before their oxygen's going to run out.

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That's a long time for them to be able to solve a problem.

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That's why we want to give them that air bottle,

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because without that air, the average individual,

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unless they're practicing on their breath,

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is probably not going to be able to get five minutes.

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So that gives them the extra time and survivability

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to egress a helicopter, should it crash.