{"id":1650,"date":"2011-06-04T19:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T00:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2011-06-05T08:37:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T13:37:55","slug":"safety-sea-hands-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"SAFETY AT SEA HANDS ON TRAINING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended a day long &#8220;in the water training&#8221; seminar in preparation for the upcoming transatlantic race. Taught by Dan O&#8217;Connor of <a href=\"http:\/\/lrse.com\/cat-Training_-1003.aspx\">Life Raft and Survival<\/a>. I highly recommend this course to anyone planning any sort of long distance sailing. The crew of &#8220;Phaedo&#8221; a Gunboat 66, which will also participate in the race were my fellow students. Their questions only improved the quality of the course.<\/p>\n<p>This was very similar to the in the water course I attended before the Fastnet Race given in England.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1650 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/life-raft-and-survival-6-4-11-40585.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/life-raft-and-survival-6-4-11-40585-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1651\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1651'>\n\t\t\t\tfire control\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/life-raft-and-survival-6-4-11-40595.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/life-raft-and-survival-6-4-11-40595-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1652\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1652'>\n\t\t\t\tflares\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/life-raft-and-survival-6-4-11-40638.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/life-raft-and-survival-6-4-11-40638-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1653\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1653'>\n\t\t\t\tclose quarters in a raft\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/life-raft-and-survival-6-4-11-40641.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/life-raft-and-survival-6-4-11-40641-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1654\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1654'>\n\t\t\t\twritten exam\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/life-raft-and-survival-6-4-11-40627.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/life-raft-and-survival-6-4-11-40627-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1655\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1655'>\n\t\t\t\tin the water with floatation \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended a day long &#8220;in the water training&#8221; seminar in preparation for the upcoming transatlantic race. Taught by Dan O&#8217;Connor of Life Raft and Survival. I highly recommend this course to anyone planning any sort of long distance sailing. The crew of &#8220;Phaedo&#8221; a Gunboat 66, which will also participate in the race &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1650\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SAFETY AT SEA HANDS ON TRAINING<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[740,741],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety-at-sea","tag-in-the-water-training","tag-lift-raft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}