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Tag: helicopter

My Olympic Sport (Part 2)

By Michael Coyle Posted on 03/02/2010 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with helicopter, HETS, olympics, rescue, training

(continued from Part 1) So, through hook or by crook, I’ve been trained to dangle from a helicopter as a rescue technique. How, may you ask, did that get me to the Olympics? A few years ago, Vancouver won the …

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My Olympic Sport (Part 1)

By Michael Coyle Posted on 27/11/2009 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with helicopter, HETS, olympics, SAR, training

I first volunteered for Search and Rescue in 1999. A friend of mine in university suggested it to me. It came up after a discussion about a high school friend of mine who had died on a mountain near Hope; …

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