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The Lindholme Gear is five cylinder-shaped containers joined together by lengths of floating rope. [1] The centre container would house a nine-man inflatable dinghy with the other containers housing survival equipment such as emergency rations and clothing. [1] The containers were discarded containers from the tail-units of 500lb and 250lb ...
The significance of the work, however, resulted in a reorganisation whereby the Navy would train its own Survival Equipment Officers and ratings. The new Royal Navy Survival Equipment School (RNSES) initially took up residence at Eastleigh, Hampshire, before it was moved to improved accommodation at Grange Airfield ( HMS Siskin) in March 1947.
The purpose-built site in Somerset opened in 1985. The Royal Navy previously had underwater breathing training for fixed-wing aircrew at the Royal Navy Air Medical School and had underwater escape for helicopter aircrew in a dunker at HMS Vernon; [1] HMS Vernon trained around 800 rotary wing aircrew a year, and had five naval divers.
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The Survitec Group was actually formed in 2000. In 2001 it bought DSB (Deutsche Schlauchboot GmbH). In 2009, The Shark Group (founded in 1975) closed its Northumberland site and production was moved to Birkenhead.
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Trueways Survival School is a survival training organisation [1] providing major media sources such as Sky News [2] and The Times newspaper with advice and guidance with regard to wilderness survival, military survival, expedition preparation and urban survival as well as providing guidance on related entertainment based television content such as the BBC Survivors (2008 TV series).