so i m with ron dornicer and the chicago fire department air sea rescue unit. ron has condensed a program into 30 minutes and agreed to let me participate in a rescue drill. first responders are a lot like professional athletes. aside from being highly skilled and physically fit, they spend endless hours training. simulations like this are real and the water is cold and the adrenalin is real. go get them, mike. you re in. niels and easy, mike. manage your energy. keep your fins under water. there you go. go on. long swim. long swim. mike turn around.
this is with the department for ten years and this is the first day with the air sea rescue. air sea rescue. i think it said scuba right there on the side of the truck. you see, right there, it s crystal clear. you know you re on the scuba team, right. i want to point out ab biguity over the scuba team which i believe is air sea. and we ll trump you one more with special operations. special ops is run by mike fox, who is basically ron s boss. mike smiles more than ron but has no patience for stalling either. and you have your scuba team and your air. helicopters. i think you ve been stalling long enough. i m not saying i m stalling. i like to get the lay of the land. and what is the name of the harbor. montrose harbor.
vi so niceands nice so nice, so nice book five nights to get one free. and $500 toward activities, shopping and dining. that s virgin islands nice. so nice, so nice so i m about to learn the ins and outs of a rescue in the chicago s montrose harbor. and ron dornicer, the no nonsense air and sea rescue crew. do a controlled entry into the water and swim out about 50 feet and watch what he does,
on scene, 2700 north at the lake front. this is a bonafide incident. we have one person who has fallen through the ice. so i m with ron dornicer and the chicago fire department air sea rescue unit. ron has condensed a program into 30 minutes and agreed to let me participate in a rescue drill. first responders are a lot like professional athletes. aside from being highly skilled and physically fit, they spend endless hours training. simulations like this are real and the water is cold and the adrenalin is real. go get them, mike. you re in. nice and easy, mike. manage your energy. lay a little bit on your side, mike. keep your fins under water. there you go. go on. long swim. long swim. real long fricking swim. mike turn around. start talking to them.
all right. and you ll use this as a deployment raft and go out and rescue somebody with this. let s go. and after the 40 hours of basic training, we re off to the rescue. he likes to hit every bump that on the road too. hey, brian, you missed a bump, let s go back and find it. where have you brought us, ron? tell me where i am. now we re going to do some training. the dock is the shelf. and you ll do some maneuvers in the water to see what it feels like. we ll take you from here once you get comfortable and we ll bring you to some area where there is some ice. there will be some solid ice and some frazzle ice and some slush ice. how many kinds of ice are there? i have no idea. it is not that i m trying to delay getting in the ice.