Wind Energy Training

“The morning began with class and the mental preparation that would be needed to overcome the days’ survival situations. This included coffee and water to maintain my mental alertness. Especially coffee. The team from SS also secured the idea for material preparation, suiting us up in flight jumpers, PFDs, harnesses for GWO, air tanks for HUET, the whole nine yards. That tenth yard was putting our knowledge from class into action, starting from a crawl, to walk, and finally running into the most climatic situation. It certainly felt real. At GWO, you felt as if the emergency was actually happening at night during a rain storm. Through HUET, being upside down under water never more disorienting. Even as a scuba diver, I was still disoriented. But the pace of training, the repetition, and progression to the final chapter only continued to build confidence with each step building on the next.

I certainly feel more prepared than ever for the real thing and would gladly recommend this course to be done annually by me and my company. Repetition is key and SS nailed it because even with all the simulations, the real thing will be far more dramatic. Even Mike Tyson quoted “everyone has a plan going into the ring, until they get hit in the face”. SS has shown me I want to be as prepared as possible for the ring because they certainly made it feel real…”