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Treehouser
So that's where that expression came from! 
Fishhuntcutwood
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Rotax Robert
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Come to think of it, it does look more like squishers dog
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Look into Gunth's eyes, don't mess with Gunthy he'd have his way with both of those critters and then chew 'em up just for showing up. 
Jeff your nephew looks like he could be yours. Cute kid!
Jeff your nephew looks like he could be yours. Cute kid!
gf beranek
Old Schooler
The duck looks OK with it.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
It's a photoshop. The duck's shadow ain't right. 
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Rotax Robert
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It's a photoshop. The duck's shadow ain't right.
Ok, I'll take your word for it, besides if it were gunth it have doin a canookian honker
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fishhuntcutwood
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I enjoy being an uncle. I'll likely not father my own kid, so having a niece to spoil is the next best thing.
And the comment about me being cool while my sister and her husband aren't is spot on!!! That's my plan, is to be the "cool" uncle.
And the comment about me being cool while my sister and her husband aren't is spot on!!! That's my plan, is to be the "cool" uncle.
pantheraba
More biners!!!
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
My apologies Jeff, she is a very cute baby. I had misread your original post. Spoil the heck outta her!
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Stop it,I nearly drowned my keyboard with coffee again.
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fishhuntcutwood
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HA! Don't sweat it. She is wearing camoflauge....that I bought her!
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fishhuntcutwood
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Yep, looks like a training flight. The CG boat is standing by in case....well in case the helo goes in the water. We're required to have either a CG boat, or another helo cover us when we're doing approaches to the water, or a hoisting flight.
Old Monkey
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Yuck! That helicopter pooped.
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Too much cranberry sauce would be my guess.
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fishhuntcutwood
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It's funny you mention that, as it's standard practice at work to say, "gotta go deploy a swimmer," to signify going to do a #2.
vharrison
Island Girl
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Jeff, How close could we have been to watch the action? I am sure there are perimeters that you must secure. Also, it is interesting they picked that area as a boat sank right close to there last week or so. Everyone on board was fine and I did not hear how they were rescued, Coast Guard might have been involved.
GASoline71
'cause chicks dig scars
I see the friendly ribbing between rescue swimmers and flight mechs is the same in the CG as it is in the Navy...
Gary
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fishhuntcutwood
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Well actually, you can get right up next to us. All we do is pick an area where we've got room to work. We've got underway (moving) and DIW (Dead In Water-not moving) hoists. For the underway hoists, the boat needs a trackline long enough to fascilitate the hoisting evolutions, which'll be less than a mile. For swimmer hoists, the boat isn't even involved, they just stand by and remain on scene incase 1) we eat it and go in the water, or 2) something goes wrong in the helo while the swimmer is in the water, and we have to bail, leaving him floating; the boat will pick him up.
You can get as close as you like so as to not interfere. I'd keep a good 75-100 yards, though I've seen boats alot closer. Just don't act all suspicious and motor at high speed towards the boat, or anything creepy like that. But heck, take pictures, wave, whatever. Something else you could do is if you see the boat out, just kinda meandering around, or sitting there, you can flag them down or hail them on your radio and ask them if they're doing "helo ops," and ask if you can watch. They may or may not tell you what they're doing, but if there's a helo in the area, they likely will be. Just kinda hang out in their vicinity-half mile or so.
Don't be afraid to hail them on the raido. Hail them on ch. 16, and they'll have you switch to ch. 21, 22, 81, or 82 for conversation depending on which freq's they work on. (Those four freqs are reserved CG working freqs.) If you can see the number on the boat, hail them by that, "Coast Guard 41327, Coast Guard 41327. This is Gigi's Party Barge (whatever your boat's name is, or describe yourself-"this is the 25 foot pleasure craft off your port stern") on channel 16. Over." Ask them if you're at a safe distance to watch helo ops. Tell them you've got a friend who's a flight mechanic in Port Angeles and that you want to watch. Don't chit chat on the radio as they'll probably cut you off, but just talk to them. They can't force you to leave the ocean. They'll just have you hold a position and distance and call it good.
If the helo is already near, circling, or over the boat, leave them alone. Go ahead and take a look, but stay off the radios. While we're over the boat, we're busy talking to them and coordinating what we're doing. They won't have time to respond to you at that point in time. The time to talk to them is when the helo is still over the horizon.
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fishhuntcutwood
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I see the friendly ribbing between rescue swimmers and flight mechs is the same in the CG as it is in the Navy...
Gary
Ya think? I didn't make this, it's on the internet...
vharrison
Island Girl
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Jeff, yeah, we would never interfere. Just awsome to watch. Sunday, they had a real live incident. Some Cubans on a home made boat got very close to shore. All but one were cooperative, they had a little trouble getting him on the rescue boat. IFrom what I heard, he was trying to swim to shore and an officer, either CG FFW, or BP, had to get in the water to get him out. All of them are heading back to Cuba, probably to some God forsaken jail.
It was a group effort with at least three agency's/ CG,BP and FFW.
It was a group effort with at least three agency's/ CG,BP and FFW.
