Don Cleavin – Escape Training Tank

Part of that of course you see you had to do the Escape Training Tank as well. Apprehension, but over the years I did that seven times.

The first four times was what you call a ‘free ascent’ when you come up from the bottom 100-foot section, all the way to the top, no apparatus, only a life jacket, breathing out all the way to the top.

When you get to the top, you climb out and you do a couple of runs in the blisters in the side of the tank, just stepping back into the water and going from about 60 feet.

Then you do the 100 foot all the way up from the bottom. Once you’d done that, that’s it finished for that time.

You’d come back in three years’ time to do it again.