What voluntary service do you work with?

Mycroft H · 17-03-2011 12:46pm

OMAC unit.

Great craic :pac:

AG2R · 26-05-2011 11:34pm

New to the boards and just seen this thread

Member of St.Johns Ambulance for the past 3 years. I joined the Cadets when I was 15 going 16 and am currently in my First year of Adults.
My First Adult Duty was Obama so thats one to remember

Shield · 26-05-2011 11:56pm

AG2R wrote: »

My First Adult Duty was Obama so thats one to remember

Wow. Would have loved to have been there. You were most definitely part of history that day.

sgt.bilko · 27-05-2011 12:00am

AG2R wrote: »

New to the boards and just seen this thread

Member of St.Johns Ambulance for the past 3 years. I joined the Cadets when I was 15 going 16 and am currently in my First year of Adults.
My First Adult Duty was Obama so thats one to remember

Good man, welcome on board !

Just a little pet hate of mine, we're not St. Johns ! It's St.John

debarran · 27-05-2011 12:05am

I work as a literacy tutor with NALA

AG2R · 27-05-2011 12:16am

Lol sorry force of habit.

Yeah it was some day, Met in HQ for 9.30 and didn't get home til 8 that night. Was worth it though. Great view of it all too.

hp123abc123 · 03-06-2011 11:48am

Hi,

Probably the wrong thread to post in, but im in the market for rescue drysuits

Anyone know of anyone selling some?

searescue · 06-06-2011 8:55pm

hp123abc123 wrote: »

Hi,

Probably the wrong thread to post in, but im in the market for rescue drysuits

Anyone know of anyone selling some?

Hi, I've worked with the lifeboats & Coast Guard.

For rescue, you should be looking at two types - Typhoon or Northern Diver.

RNLI use Typhoone and CG use a mixture but newer ones are Northern Diver.

My preference is Typhoon - cheaper, self donning (you can zip it up yourself) and when the pager goes off and you arrive at the station - you can be in that suit and zipped up in 15 seconds.

However, Northern Diver look better (nothing wrong looking with Typhoon but Northern Diver do logos and RESCUE signage etc.) But, the ND suits can take up to a minute and a half to put on - plus they're not self donning (someone has to zip you up!).

In saying that, for a busy unit like and RNLI station, you might have to repair your Typhoon suit 2-3 times a year but you might not have to do any repairs on a ND suit.

ND are more expensive than Typhoon also.

Hope that helps - both have their advantages and disadvantages.

http://www.ndiver.com/site/index.html - Rescue sites seem down at the moment.

http://www.typhoon-int.co.uk/products/surface/surface_drysuits/racer_ezeedon/

kkhornet · 11-08-2011 1:55pm

I'm a member of the Kilkenny OMAC unit and love it. I don't get to do many duties because of work but get to meet loads of great people and learn new skills.

miju · 11-08-2011 8:46pm

kkhornet wrote: »

I'm a member of the Kilkenny OMAC unit and love it. I don't get to do many duties because of work but get to meet loads of great people and learn new skills.

One of your lot is on the current EMT course, sound as a pound so she is

kkhornet · 11-08-2011 11:50pm

miju wrote: »

One of your lot is on the current EMT course, sound as a pound so she is

Yeah gillian, shes a bit mad, Very good at what she does though.
Best of luck to you with the course, I've a bit of a way to go yet before i get to do emt training.

miju · 12-08-2011 12:49pm

kkhornet wrote: »

Yeah gillian, shes a bit mad, Very good at what she does though.
Best of luck to you with the course, I've a bit of a way to go yet before i get to do emt training.

yeah she's great craic altogether. Have a had a few nights out with her on the town after hard days training

:p