A flashback logbook today, as I am spending a weekend in Cologne and I am taking some time to sort through a mountain of photos from the past months.
This is a picture from last June, when Anton, Terry and myself had our water survival training in a lake not far from Star City.
The most challenging thing about water survival is the heat – in the tiny descent module, the three of us had to doff our Sokol pressure suits (that you see in photo), put on several layers of thermal clothing and a dry suit, before jumping into the water to evacuate a descent module that we simulated to be slowly leaking.
In the confined space, all that changing of clothes took us over an hour and a half in which we were drenched in sweat, taking turns to rest and use the ventilation hoses to cool down. It was fine balance between working fast to get out quicker and working slowly to avoid overheating. Just in case, before the training we swallowed a wireless sensor via which the doctor could monitor our core temperature during the exercise.
It’s unlikely we’ll ever have to use these skills, but for sure it was a great exercise in team building!
If you’re interested, you can find many more pictures here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/astrosamantha/sets/72157634342550408/
Water survival training.
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://anne.cpamoa.free.fr/blog/index.php/category/logbook-samantha
05/10/2013