Ian Moore – Day Two of qualifying at SETT

Day 2 was the wet water, the wet tank, so wet work was Day 2 of the Training and that’s when you would spend all day just in the Tank and just doing these various runs. It takes that long purely and simply because you’re only going through the chamber 4 or 5 at a time, and there might be 20 of you in the class who are having to qualify that day, so there’s a fair amount of sitting around on Day 2, waiting for your turn. This is when the anxiety level starts to go up.

Simon: That’s interesting. ‘Cos you have a chance to think about the repercussions of what’s going to happen.

Yep, and you get that banter between the guys that are sat around, and everybody’s got this bravado about them and everything else, but when it comes to your turn, everything suddenly goes very quiet (laughs). Everybody shuts up, nobody says a word and it’s almost like, right, ok, this is the march of death, here we go, until they’ve done it. And once they’ve done the first run …

Simon: So, once you’ve done the first 30, you’re ok.

Yeah, then you’re back into the routine again. Right, ok, let’s get on with another 30, let’s get on with the 60.

Simon: And each time you redo the training, you do the 30, 60, …

30, 60, 100 yeah. 30,60,100, 30, 60, 100, you do that all the time because I mean what they don’t want is to take you straight down to 100 and for you to have problems. Because you know some people can have medical issues they’re not even aware of, especially with their ears.