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00:00EAST HARBOR HEROES
00:06Previously on EAST HARBOR HEROES
00:09We've landed 12 so far.
00:11So we've got another one to try to catch today.
00:13Ron Curtis got his tuna season off to a roaring start.
00:17He's a big boy, he's a big boy.
00:21TAREC S905 is in the climb for 3,500 feet.
00:24Roger.
00:25The 103 squadron sharpened their skills over the North Atlantic.
00:29It's a massive area that we're responsible for.
00:32Our job is to bring people back home,
00:34and people know that we'll go out there and we'll search for them.
00:38Is he going to throw it?
00:39Yeah.
00:40And the Brake family went out searching for signs of new crab.
00:43Don, first pot down!
00:49Never underestimate the ocean.
00:51Be careful now, bud.
00:52You always gotta be watching that, right?
00:54TAREC S905 is in the climb.
00:56You can always expect that there's something unexpected that's gonna happen.
01:00We gotta get a move on.
01:02Okay, we're getting to the ballpark now.
01:04A bit challenging on times, no doubt about that.
01:06Boat to them, crews are ready, and whatever it takes.
01:09These are the EAST HARBOR HEROES.
01:11The middle of the night on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
01:23And the Brake family are steaming offshore on a halibut trip.
01:26What's up there?
01:27And it's already a frenzy on board.
01:29It's a new brain.
01:30Turn on the sun.
01:31I'm standing north.
01:32They should be good.
01:33Holy sugar.
01:34Oh, I hate my tongue, man.
01:35That's why I just said that.
01:36They're headed 30 miles out in hopes of filling a 3,200 pound quota that's scheduled to expire
01:46in a few days.
01:47Just watch what you're doing when I need.
01:48Don't stick it in nobody or yourself.
01:50But in this weather...
01:52Oh, boy.
01:53Is that easy to stand up and all that?
01:55It won't be easy.
01:56We'll rebate our hoax before we get to our destination.
01:59And when we get there, we'll start snapping them on the long line.
02:05Hopefully, he comes back full of fish with any luck.
02:09We ain't how much time left to catch our quota.
02:14Given the rough conditions, the brakes requested an extension, or switch, from DFO.
02:19The Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
02:22The union calls me yesterday morning.
02:24DFO denied our switch.
02:27Like, we're leaving in Wynn.
02:29And where we got to go to is that.
02:32It's not the same spot.
02:33DFO?
02:34They should come out here sometimes when they sense us in this weather.
02:38Like, it's ridiculous.
02:40Oh, that's our government.
02:41That's our union.
02:42That's DFO.
02:43We normally do this on shore, but where we were late last night,
02:47the kitchen bait, we was dark, but we got in.
02:50Those are at least 207 hooks.
02:53Each bucket has over 200 hooks to bait with fresh mackerel.
02:57And the two trawls they'll send out to sea will have 1,000.
03:00Is that them?
03:01Yeah.
03:02Do you like standing up?
03:03Awesome.
03:04I got to recount them now.
03:07We'll just make sure that there's 200 on the, in the one tray.
03:11Like I said, we normally do this into the wharf.
03:13We're nice and calm.
03:14We're not rocking them rolling, trying to hold on and bait the oak at the same time.
03:18Getting sick?
03:19What?
03:20You getting sick?
03:21I'll throw it a couple times, looking good.
03:22You want to throw it off?
03:23No, I said I will.
03:24I will.
03:25While the brakes battle rough seas, 300 miles north in Happy Valley Goose Bay, Labrador.
03:41Simulated, simulated, simulated, 1-go alert, 1-go alert.
03:48The RCAF's 444 squadron are running an emergency training exercise.
03:53What do we got?
03:54Two CF-18 returning from the training PTA.
03:58Louettes 1-2 declared an emergency.
04:01One single sold on board.
04:03Okay, let's start with a sector search.
04:06We'll go out to a mile and look for signs of the wreckage.
04:08My name is Major Erin Pratt.
04:10I am the commanding officer of 444 Combat Support Squadron, located here in beautiful Happy Valley Goose Bay, Labrador.
04:17444 squadron's primary task is responding to incidents that occur from military flying operations at 5-wing Goose Bay,
04:25a base where air forces from around the world come to train on account of Labrador's vast, rugged, and remote landscape.
04:32Ready?
04:33Ready.
04:34The squadron also supports the Royal Canadian Air Force's Eastern Search and Rescue Region.
04:39An area of almost 2 million square miles that receives the most distressed calls of any region of Canada.
04:46The terrain here is very challenging, the weather is very dynamic, so it's incredibly important for us to constantly be honing these skills so that we're very responsive when the time comes.
05:01We've got maps, preps, search patterns are going to be prepped in the aircraft, flight plans have already been filed.
05:06Questions?
05:07Questions?
05:08Let's roll.
05:09This mission is going to be a demonstration of our ability to respond to a crashed jet pilot, one that has ejected from their machine.
05:16And we're going to go look for them and pick them up.
05:19Major Pratt and her crew fly CH-146 Griffin helicopters, which are agile and multi-purposed, perfect for the wide range of functions the squadron needs to perform.
05:30I will be the aircraft commander.
05:31I will be the aircraft commander.
05:33First officer today will be Captain Rob Hannum.
05:36The flight engineer will be Sergeant Curtis Fox.
05:39The medical technician will be Sergeant Erwin Dubois.
05:42I'll go in first, I'll be closer to the door, go with pen kit.
05:46Can you come in with O2 and a rescue sling?
05:49I am a medical technician, specialized in the combat support squadron flight.
05:55Today the scenario, it's a mock-up of our primary mission, which is the recovery of an ejected pilot.
06:00Okay, let's go.
06:02It is completely a team effort.
06:04So everybody has a role to play and everybody works as a team.
06:09Okay, I was fighting for you zero, just to hit starters here.
06:12We're going to be training the local area next two hours.
06:14We try to run training operations at least every single working day of the week.
06:19It's going to be one down to F-18 looking for smoke, looking for fire, looking for an orange chute.
06:25Clear right.
06:26Clear left.
06:27Clear above.
06:3280 torque.
06:3490.
06:35Air speed's live to your side.
06:37Right there's closed.
06:40While Major Pratt leads her team's training mission,
06:43500 miles south in Foxtrap.
06:50Excited to do some learning today?
06:51Yeah.
06:52Absolutely.
06:53Been a while since we were in the classroom.
06:56The crew of the OSC Mariner are on land this week at the Offshore Safety and Survival Center.
07:01High home, high home.
07:02Back to school I go.
07:04Last time I've done this course was probably nine years ago.
07:10Probably 15 years ago now since I've done it.
07:12I've done a course in 95 and I've done the course again in 2020, so...
07:17The boys are here for the OSSC's Domestic Vessel Safety, or DVS, training course.
07:25It's a refresher.
07:27For most.
07:29My first time.
07:31It's for safety and everybody that's on the water should have this.
07:34It'll be good to just go through it again.
07:37Alrighty.
07:38We're here for the DVS.
07:41I'm not really nervous, it's just...
07:44I'm not tore up over a classroom.
07:47No, you are tore up over a classroom.
07:51While the crew gets busy at their desks,
07:53their skipper's getting fitted for some fire training gear.
07:57Try counting.
07:59One, two, three...
08:01Courses like this, I mean, just brings down the chaos level aboard a vessel or a fishing vessel when a situation arises.
08:10The centre was founded in the wake of Newfoundland's deadliest offshore disaster.
08:15The tragic sinking of the Ocean Ranger oil rig in 1982.
08:19Back in St. John's, flags flew at half-mast as a community mourned,
08:22and the search continued for explanations of what had happened.
08:26The loss of all 84 crew members aboard the Ocean Ranger
08:30forged the OSSC's core mission,
08:32to keep those who work on the water safe and ready.
08:39Please take your mask off.
08:41And courses like this, I mean, just drives it home, what you're doing each and every day.
08:45And when it comes to safety here, nothing is spared.
08:49Here you go.
08:51So I'm after showering already this morning now.
08:54I get here at school and I'm not getting the right seal on my mask for the VA.
09:00So apparently I gotta go shave my goatee.
09:04So you might see a different Ron in a half an hour or so.
09:11Oh man, it's been years.
09:13This is gonna be funny.
09:14I'm getting rid of all the braids anyway.
09:24Wait till I show the boys, they'll get a kick out of this.
09:32Back aboard the Lady Geneva,
09:33the Brake family drops their first halibut lawn.
09:37We're in!
09:41Let's open up your little little holes.
09:44We'll be running the hooks and we'll have lots trawling.
09:50Each trawler setting is about 9,000 feet long
09:52and holds 500 hooks, 3 fathoms or 18 feet apart.
09:58Go for it, master.
10:00That one's going in here.
10:02Okay, talk to you again.
10:04I got the clean and easy job.
10:11They get the cold and the harder one.
10:16Pretty tedious and dangerous work that is.
10:26Gets one of those caught in your hand
10:28and you could go overboard pretty quick.
10:34We were off like, what?
10:3526?
10:3626 miles.
10:3726 miles offshore.
10:38So, it was a bigger race.
10:43But you gotta take risks in order to...
10:45Get the reward.
10:46Get the reward.
10:52Okay, it's gone!
10:53About 30 miles from Trout River, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence...
11:06Yeah.
11:07He got it.
11:09You got a win, Sean?
11:11The Brake family is hauling their first halibut line
11:14from a depth of about 600 feet.
11:16I need a few minutes for the boilers.
11:17I'm not talking very fast.
11:19Nah, this time of year,
11:20they're usually out in this depth of water.
11:24Can't lose none of them fish.
11:25We need every one.
11:28The Brakes have 3,200 pounds to catch
11:31on a quota that's about to expire.
11:35Every minute and every hook counts.
11:38Well, that's not...
11:40That's not looking very promising.
11:50Cadfish.
11:51Suffer.
11:56Cadfish.
11:58I didn't see the water, I guess.
12:02It didn't look good.
12:03Pretty gloomy.
12:04The hooks was coming up back with the bait on it,
12:07and no fish on it.
12:08No halibut.
12:10A lot of blanks.
12:11A lot of blanks, yeah.
12:15Never had it this bad.
12:22It's hitting a miss game, right?
12:24I don't know if he's big enough or not.
12:29Yes.
12:31Just one measly little fish.
12:34When your catch is good, the money is good,
12:39and that motivates you.
12:40If your catches are low,
12:42everybody's spirits drops.
12:44If you got nothing,
12:45that means everyone across the board got nothing.
12:47Never one deer coming, isn't it?
12:48Oh, Cadfish.
12:50Build our hopes up for nothing.
12:53Rice butter.
12:54Right turn.
12:55We saw some orange smoke in the trees.
12:56Right turn's open.
12:57In Goose Bay, Labrador,
12:58visual of smoke.
12:59The Royal Canadian Air Force's Triple Four Squadron
13:01are in deep on an intense attack.
13:02No one deer coming in there.
13:03Oh, Cadfish.
13:05No one deer coming in there.
13:06No one deer coming in there.
13:08No one deer coming in there.
13:09Oh, Cadfish.
13:10Build our hopes up for nothing.
13:11...
13:12...
13:14Right, butter.
13:15Right turn.
13:16We saw some orange smoke in the trees.
13:18Right turn's open.
13:21In Goose Bay, Labrador...
13:22...
13:23...
13:24...
13:25The Royal Canadian Air Force's Triple Four Squadron
13:26are in deep on an intense training mission.
13:29Yeah, roger.
13:30Roger, I see the pilot's waving at me.
13:32All right.
13:34The scenario involves an ejected pilot
13:36that the unit needs to rescue.
13:37As the team leader of the mission, I will be coordinating with the aircraft captain,
13:47Major Pratt, with ensuring my side of the mission, which is where I want to insert with
13:53my team.
13:58It's vital for us to train exercises like this because we can be called to respond with
14:05a moment's notice from the ejection to hitting the ground.
14:09We want to eliminate as much time as possible.
14:14We want to simulate the mission as close to real as we can, sort of a train like a fight
14:31idea.
14:320, Alpha Affirmative.
14:33Wait for the right.
14:34Alpha A for, we'll go.
14:39Hello, sir.
14:41Can you hear me?
14:43Yeah.
14:44All right, we're going to get you out of here, okay?
14:47So, stokes on your position over there whenever you can?
14:50Yeah.
14:51Yeah.
14:52And then get the clamshell out of it.
14:53Yeah.
14:54Oh, watch your head, sir.
14:55Here we go.
14:56As a team leader, I'm getting all the input from my patient and all my different team members.
15:03I'm going to need to soak in five minutes at my location.
15:07Can you take a deep breath for me?
15:09All right, that's good.
15:10I'm down.
15:11Okay, perfect.
15:12So, it's a great scenario with all the things that at once are happening that we have to
15:17play on and do it.
15:19Clear to hoist?
15:20Yeah, you are clear.
15:21Cable's going open.
15:22Four, three, two, one, stokes on the ground.
15:35Five hundred miles southeast in St. John's.
15:39Hey, I'm Dan Sweeney with Kraken Robotics Systems.
15:43We are a marine technology company headquartered here in Newfoundland, Canada.
15:47The core of Kraken's operation is the catfish sonar system, which maps parts of the seabed
15:53that would otherwise be impossible to capture.
15:56The primary application for this technology is in military and defense, specifically around
16:00finding explosives on the seabed that could do harm to naval or civilian vessels.
16:06The technology helps to uncover modern-day underwater threats, as well as undetonated
16:11explosives, dating as far back as the First World War.
16:16Over here is where you see our quality assurance test area.
16:19We do test all our equipment in a wet environment before we send it out to the customers.
16:24Today, Dan and his team are getting the system ready for a final test run on the open water.
16:31Our clients are trying to put this type of thing into service to make sure that they can
16:35do things like maintain critical shipping lanes and port and harbor security.
16:39Shipping goods by sea is a key component of global trade today.
16:43Here in Newfoundland, more than half of all goods arrive by boat.
16:48In the St. Lawrence Seaway alone, nearly 135 million tons of cargo are moved each year.
16:56Everybody's working together to come up with a solution to get this product out the door in a safe and efficient way.
17:04Typically, this would sit on the back of a vessel and we would launch overboard into the sea.
17:09Having Newfoundlanders employed as our production team, it gives us access to a deep pool of very knowledgeable and resourceful people.
17:22Problem solving is kind of ingrained in the culture here in Newfoundland.
17:25We're used to finding solutions that require you to think outside the box.
17:29So, we're doing things like range of motion tests, we're doing integrity checks on the tow cable,
17:34and then my team will take that to Nova Scotia, install it on our vessel,
17:37and make sure it does what it needs to do in a real world environment.
17:40There's a halibut there.
17:50Halibut, halibut!
17:52Halibut!
17:53Janie, Janie, Janie!
17:54Down to their last trawl, the Brake family's fortune has finally turned.
17:58That one did you?
17:59You know what I'm saying?
18:00A queen's wearing hoops up!
18:06All of them just like good size.
18:09Nice ones.
18:10They're a money fish, yeah.
18:17Relief stress.
18:18It always works out in the end.
18:21Our first trial, we didn't end up with very many halibut.
18:24It was bare minimal.
18:25Yeah, the next one we halibut up was the last one.
18:27We halibut up, and they kept coming.
18:30And it was like, yes.
18:33Finally.
18:34Finally hit them.
18:35We finally got them.
18:36How many was there?
18:37Is it 12?
18:38Yeah, 12.
18:43When it comes, it comes good.
18:44I told you.
18:45All right, there's a lot of buttons here to miss.
18:50You only have a little one.
18:52You only have your tray, or you only have two?
18:55No, they wouldn't, unless we ain't got to over.
18:56No, they wouldn't, unless we ain't got to over.
18:58What about the plane?
19:00No.
19:05Complete with southpast cabin area.
19:06Cabin area secure.
19:08A few miles outside Goose Bay Labrador.
19:10What's your first name?
19:11Sam.
19:12Sam.
19:13Med techs from the Triple Four Squadron are running a true-to-life training scenario.
19:17He has an unstable pelvis, dislocated shoulder, I think.
19:20It's probably a busted femur.
19:22Look, we're gonna put the stokes right here, and then we'll have a nice tension on the outside.
19:28Once the board is loaded up, we'll be able to make our way to the extraction point.
19:34All right.
19:36Sam on three.
19:37One, two, three.
19:43We cannot actually hoist him alive on a training mission.
19:47So, we're gonna put a mannequin in it, just so we can move on with the simulation.
19:52I'm Captain Sam Connors with Triple Four Squadron.
19:56I was playing a downed fighter pilot who's ejected close to the Goose Bay air base here.
20:04Training's idle, because if we don't do these training scenarios,
20:07well, then we wouldn't be ready for the real-life thing, would we?
20:10As close to real as we can get it.
20:13Viper 8-0.
20:14Star Ground Lord ready for extraction.
20:16There's an element of risk in everything that we do.
20:18If we were to not take a risk, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.
20:22And I work with a bunch of people who it's their life's mandate
20:25to get out of bed and put their uniform on and serve.
20:28Stokes South Ground.
20:29Clear right.
20:30Clear right.
20:42That's nice, right. Working inside.
20:43High light green.
20:49Today went really well.
20:51I'm very proud of my crew.
20:53It's just a demonstration that we continue to do a really good job
20:57every single time we go out and do this work.
21:11After hauling water for most of the day,
21:13the Brake family finally hit pay dirt on their final trawl.
21:16Another one coming.
21:18Let's see.
21:19Another one coming.
21:20Let's see.
21:21Another one coming.
21:22Another one coming.
21:23Another one coming.
21:24Another one coming.
21:25Another one coming.
21:26Oh, no.
21:27Oh, no.
21:28I-ho, I-ho.
21:29Off to the fish market I go.
21:31Big ones are flicking in like nothing.
21:33How many?
21:34Eight.
21:35I'll get this one or I'll have it.
21:36My fish crawl.
21:37The brakes have steamed nearly 30 miles offshore to catch halibut,
21:49the largest flatfish in the world.
21:53This line of hooks has saved their day,
21:56but they need at least another 20 to reach their quota.
21:59Holy .
22:01Halibut fishing is hard.
22:03Like when you actually get fish coming in back to back,
22:06because they're wild, like, and they're big.
22:09And they're strong.
22:11They are strong.
22:12They got a lot of kick to them.
22:14Yeah.
22:15They're spunky.
22:16Yeah.
22:17It's a rush, and there's a lot of work to it,
22:19but it's paycheck time.
22:21Well, we got 95 fish altogether.
22:25We pretty much got our quota for this one trawl.
22:28All way up that way.
22:30Jesus and snap our eye.
22:32Now what way are you going?
22:33This way?
22:34Yep, that way.
22:35So your motivation is a lot higher when your catch is higher,
22:45because you want more when you know the catch is there,
22:47that you're going to get more.
22:49So the mood changes big time when you get hurt.
22:51Everybody's happy then when the fish is coming.
22:53Yeah.
22:54That's good fish, that is.
22:55That's a good fish, that is.
22:56That's a good fish.
22:57That's a good fish, right?
22:58Yeah.
22:59Yeah.
23:00Yeah.
23:01Yeah.
23:02Yeah.
23:03Yeah.
23:04All right.
23:05Okay, let's go this way.
23:07We've still got a busy day.
23:08Sounds good.
23:10At the Offshore Safety and Survival Centre in Foxtrap, the crew from the OSC Mariner continue to train up their marine emergency skills.
23:19Let's go inside.
23:20Well, we've got them all here today.
23:21We've got Dino and Bob and Luke and Tom.
23:24The guys, you know, they know what to do in different situations.
23:27But this is more or less just keeping it fresh in their minds.
23:34And while the crew gets settled, their captain is off to the fire field for live training.
23:47Everybody ready?
23:48Ready!
23:49All right.
23:51The goal of this exercise is for seamen like Ron to better understand fire behaviour.
23:56So they can prevent or fight one on their boats.
23:59All the way open.
24:00All the way open.
24:01That's critical.
24:02Critical.
24:03Worst case scenario, you've got a fire on board.
24:05Your boat.
24:06And you're asking yourself two questions.
24:08Can we fight the fire and get it out?
24:11Or have we got an abandoned ship?
24:13Side to side.
24:14Where's the fire to?
24:15What caused the fire?
24:17And what can we do to put that fire out?
24:19And if we can't put it out, overboard we go.
24:23Come down a little bit.
24:24Come down a little bit.
24:25Come down a little bit.
24:26Come down a little bit.
24:27Come down a little bit.
24:28Right there.
24:29And I think it's great.
24:30I mean, you know, just to bring it alive in your mind and seeing it in action.
24:36These exercises aren't hypothetical.
24:39Dozens of fire occur on fishing vessels every year in Newfoundland.
24:42The report of fire in the engine room.
24:45You're attacking the fire.
24:47And it's training like this that helps crews survive.
24:51Hello, this is Fire T1.
24:55Fire is out.
24:57I got a newfound respect for our volunteer fire department.
25:02Tiring.
25:03Tiring.
25:04Tiring.
25:09After a down, then up day of halibut fishing, the brakes are headed into port.
25:14We've got to tag everyone now.
25:16So he'll measure it now.
25:18And Josie will figure out weights.
25:22Here, Josie.
25:25What does he say?
25:2637.
25:2737 pounds.
25:28No.
25:29On the board.
25:3047.
25:31I'm sorry.
25:32Mom.
25:33There are 98 halibut to tag.
25:35To hit their quota, they need to average around 35 pounds each.
25:39You good?
25:40Yep.
25:41Josie!
25:44They're all weight now, are they?
25:46Yeah.
25:4724.95.
25:4824.95.
25:4924.95.
25:50700 pounds.
25:51That's over $7,000 worth of halibut that they're missing.
25:56If we go over our quota, they take it from us.
25:59But if we don't get it, we don't get it.
26:01They're not giving it back to us.
26:03So you kind of push yourself, even though you kind of don't want to.
26:08No.
26:09So what are we going to do then?
26:10Where are we sitting?
26:12What are we doing?
26:13They don't do it.
26:14They don't get it.
26:15They don't get it.
26:16I'm sorry.
26:17Who doesn't go to work for a paycheck?
26:20Right?
26:21Like, everybody goes to work for a paycheck.
26:23So we're obviously going to take a risk to go out.
26:27Put yourself in danger.
26:29Well, there's got to be big ones down there, Bonnie.
26:32There we go.
26:33There we go.
26:34There we go.
26:35There we go.
26:36Well, I want to get more votes before I let her go.
26:50After a few hours of sleep, the Brake family are heading back out
26:53to sea.
26:54Josie!
26:55Come here.
26:56Get a little lever there.
26:58I'm falling.
26:59We're heading out to our second day now of our hollow butt
27:02fishery.
27:03We haven't had very good weather.
27:04We ended up with 98 fish the first day that we went out.
27:09We're heading out closer to home because the weather just
27:11doesn't want to cooperate.
27:12So hope all goes well for us and we catch the rest of our quota.
27:16The curtain is closing on their season.
27:18And there's still $7,000 left on the table.
27:22Bad weather or not, this is their last chance to get it.
27:26It's great to get all of our fish because that's a good paycheck.
27:29So we're hoping to get it all with any luck.
27:33Okay, ready?
27:35Get in and back.
27:36Not you.
27:37Not you.
27:38Not you.
27:39All in now.
27:52In Dartmouth Cove, across the harbour from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
27:57Kraken Robotics' catfish sonar system has arrived from Newfoundland.
28:01Chief Technology Officer Dave Shea is overseeing the final sea trials
28:05before it ships out to a client overseas.
28:07So you can see there's a number of different components for the ALARs.
28:11We have our electric winch.
28:13If the catfish says, I need to get deeper to get closer to the seabed,
28:16it can actually command the winch, pay out more cable.
28:19All right, Rich, let me know once you have a fixed heading.
28:22I'll go for a launch.
28:23I'll go for a launch.
28:24Roger, launch.
28:25Come bring it.
28:31The catfish takes a dive in nearby Bedford Basin.
28:34It's been told to go down to 20-metre depth,
28:37so it's starting to pay out cable.
28:39It'll start turning on all of its sonars,
28:41and it'll be pinging off the seafloor the whole time.
28:45As it moves along, the catfish maps large sections of the bottom
28:48with remarkable clarity.
28:50We can bring it up to six knots, sir, Rich.
29:01So now we're starting to see some sonar data.
29:04We can see all the junk on the seabed.
29:07So this is probably a storage box for something.
29:10These are probably tires that have fallen off of a vessel somewhere.
29:15That's the advantage of the synthetic aperture sonar.
29:18We get that kind of resolution.
29:20And it doesn't matter whether we're 10 metres away
29:22or 200 metres away.
29:23We get the same resolution image.
29:28This amazing piece of technology allows authorities,
29:31at home and abroad,
29:33to keep busy harbours and critical shipping lanes
29:35safe and operating.
29:37We're going to recover the catfish,
29:40so the winch will start pulling in.
29:42All right, going for recovery.
29:44Successful day of testing.
29:53So next up for this system,
29:54we're going to be prepping it for shipment down to our customer,
29:57integrating it onto their vessel
29:59and completing sea trials in their country with the Navy.
30:07Over in Foxtrap,
30:08at the Offshore Safety and Survival Centre.
30:11From a sitting position.
30:13Put your feet in the suit.
30:15Ron's crew from the OSC Mariner.
30:18All right, get all the way up.
30:20Are set for water training in immersion suits.
30:23One, two, three, four.
30:31Over 5,000 offshore personnel come to the OSSC every year.
30:36And with good reason.
30:37All right, go for a swim.
30:39The number of marine emergencies in Newfoundland
30:41is twice the national average.
30:45Fishing is very dangerous.
30:47Once you leave the good sea,
30:49you don't know what's going to happen.
30:52You're in all kinds of rough weather.
30:58If a distress comes in or goes out,
31:00we've got to send a distress out.
31:02And if you haven't got this training,
31:03well, it could be a lot of confusion.
31:09You can't hesitate.
31:10When the order is given to abandon them,
31:12it's an order.
31:17Roll over 360.
31:18Come on.
31:20Well, a life rafting in emergency suits
31:22is probably one of the most important things.
31:25Knowing what to do in an emergency situation
31:28just increases your chances of survival.
31:34For Ron's crew,
31:35the dangers at sea are still fresh in their minds.
31:38So move around and use another emergency plan.
31:40Two years ago,
31:42hunting redfish on the Grand Banks.
31:44There was a storm in the night time,
31:46like it always happens.
31:48And the stabilizer fin let go.
31:55We were in a situation where we had to put out a mayday.
31:58Send you Coast Guard Radio, OSC Mariner.
32:01So for a few hours there, it was a bit frightening.
32:04Are you in any immediate danger, over?
32:07Oh, my.
32:08We were ready to abandon ship if we had to at that time.
32:11Can you hook anything to show it up that way?
32:13And we were bouncing ideas and back and forth
32:16to what could be done from quick order
32:18to get the situation under control.
32:25Okay.
32:26Who's next?
32:27You?
32:28Back in the pool,
32:29first mate Dino is face-to-face
32:31with a lifelong fear.
32:32And that's horrible and good to the next jump.
32:34Yeah.
32:36Oh, I just don't like water.
32:42I never could swim or whatever.
32:44All right, stand out to the edge.
32:47All right.
32:48All right.
32:49You ready?
32:50Step.
32:51I mean, you got a lot of fishermen that don't know how to swim.
32:53You got a lot of fishermen that might have that fear of water
32:56for some given reason, right?
32:58It's something that he don't like doing, but he knows that he got to do.
33:03Like I said, if the boat is sinking, I'd like to be able to walk off.
33:07Walk off and get in the water, not jump.
33:16If I got to get in the water, I'll get in the water.
33:20Knowing how to swim goes a long ways.
33:22But, I mean, with that emergency suit on,
33:24all you need to know how to do is kick your feet and flap your arms.
33:28Good job.
33:29Good job, Dino.
33:30Good job, Dino.
33:31Good job.
33:32Good job.
33:33Good job.
33:50Captain Ron!
33:51Skipper Ron Curtis is on the open water for his final training exercise.
33:56We're here at the Marine Institute facility in Holy Root.
33:59We're going to be launching some different life rafts,
34:02different scenarios and things like that.
34:04You're good to go, Dino?
34:05Good to go.
34:08All right.
34:09Well, I'm going to get you to do now and pick up a heading of 180.
34:11Steer to the south coast.
34:12The captain and his crew have been put through their paces
34:15here at the training center.
34:18They've run through multiple critical scenarios,
34:20from firefighting to water exercises,
34:23evacuations to survival protocols.
34:25Hey, buddy.
34:26I got him.
34:27There you go.
34:28Ice boat one.
34:29You on the air?
34:30Two copy, over.
34:31This is rescue one.
34:32We've brought the survivor on board.
34:33Roger, roger.
34:34I'm sure now when I go aboard the OSC Mariner,
34:36all the boys are going to have all these recommendations.
34:38Let's do this.
34:39Let's try this.
34:40Let's make this a little bit safer.
34:41Yeah.
34:42So right now we're getting ready to do a transfer from rescue boat one
34:44to lifeboat one.
34:55Emergencies like this, the transfer of a person between rescue boats,
34:59are more likely to happen far offshore,
35:02where Ron and his crew typically fish.
35:05And being prepared for the possibility is what training's all about.
35:09A little bit more.
35:10A little bit more when the emergency is happening.
35:12It's not the time to learn how to use a piece of equipment.
35:18All right, all on board.
35:26All right, nice and easy now.
35:28Keep it coming.
35:32I think now that they're prepared and well prepared.
35:35Like, we'll have discussions now when fishing starts again this year
35:39and what to do and how to make situations a bit safer for us
35:43when we're out on the water.
35:52Over 500 miles northwest in Goose Bay...
35:56So you guys have a full crew in there?
35:58I do. I have a full crew and a serviceable aircraft.
36:00What can I do for you?
36:01Triple Four Commanding Officer Major Erin Pratt is mobilizing her crew.
36:05I think the patient steps in.
36:07We just received word from Joint Rescue Coordinating Center in Halifax
36:11that there is a potential for a medevac on the coast.
36:14So they've asked us to get ready.
36:16My medtech just showed up, so I'm going to relate some of the information to him.
36:20Okay.
36:22As a unit capable of conducting search and rescue,
36:24Triple Four Squadron are the closest to the patient's remote location
36:28and best able to respond quickly.
36:30We are tasked.
36:32We are tasked.
36:33It's go time.
36:41When you serve such a vast area with remote communities,
36:44every mission requires precise planning.
36:47We're planning on getting some fuel as well.
36:49Because we don't quite have enough fuel to go out and come back.
36:52Aircraft analysis, please.
36:54We have Aircraft 480 out on Spot 2.
36:56Fuel will be 2150.
36:57Second start checks of the day.
36:58Config is full start capability.
37:00Any questions?
37:01Good to go.
37:02Okay, we're good.
37:03Let's roll out.
37:04Here we go.
37:09Here we go.
37:10Here we go.
37:11Here we go.
37:28Night has fallen in Trout River.
37:31The Brake family are back from a second day of halibut fishing.
37:33It was rough today.
37:35It was so rough.
37:36Yeah.
37:37Conditions forced them to try their luck closer to shore.
37:40And then only for two fish?
37:42Oh, it's brutal.
37:44We left because we're on a time crunch.
37:49The weather wasn't really the best, but we had to do it
37:52because as of now we only had two days to catch the rest of our quota.
37:58At least the two fish they caught were 100 pounders.
38:01Okay.
38:02Good.
38:03Ninety-four pounds.
38:04Yep.
38:05Ninety-four.
38:06Well, the halibut shifts off in deeper water in the fall of the year.
38:12So we did try one in close to home.
38:15We had two halibut.
38:17It was just a gamble because we never had the weather to go.
38:21But what the Brake struggle with in terms of conditions this time of year, they make up for in other ways.
38:28Halibut in the fall is a much longer process than it is in the summer, big time.
38:33Take the risk to get the reward.
38:35We benefited in the end because it was a higher price for us.
38:40They landed just shy of 3,000 pounds.
38:43Not quite their quota, but at over $10 a pound, more than twice the price in summer, it's still a big payday.
38:50That's the thing.
38:51I think about the girls.
38:52Like, they got kids.
38:53And it's so costly nowadays.
38:55Like, just the economy itself.
38:58And you take $30,000, you know you're going to push yourself to the limit anyway at all, right?
39:05What you got to do, what you got to do.
39:18While the Brakes enjoy their win, Triple Four Squadron have returned from their rescue mission.
39:24One that took them to a remote island over 200 miles from the base.
39:29For this job, you need to give yourself to the mission.
39:33There will be late nights. You have to miss a birthday. You have to miss Christmas holidays.
39:39But we punch through and make the mission happen.
39:43I always had a goal of helping people.
39:45I really love putting on my uniform. I like going flying.
39:49I really like taking care of other people.
39:51Knowing that there are families that get closure at the end of it.
39:54Whether it's bringing home someone they love or letting them know that we now know what the end of the result is.
40:01I do what I do because I love it and I can't imagine doing anything else.
40:05On the docks and bait a bird.
40:15Turn down a few things, get it all ready for when Ron shows up.
40:18Put the groceries aboard and both doors up on the tanks.
40:21And in the cucumber season.
40:24The crew of the OSC Mariner, fresh off their training in Foxtrap, are loading up for a brand new fishing challenge.
40:32Oh, everything perfect.
40:34Been so long since I've been on here, it's going to take me a minute or so to get back into the groove.
40:42It doesn't stop. Loves it. Loves it, I do.
40:48Captain Ron and the Boaz have been tasked by the DFO to conduct a survey of sea cucumbers in their usual fishing grounds off the northeast coast.
40:57They're saying like a pan full of cucumbers around 130, 150 pounds.
41:02Yeah.
41:03It's an emerging fishery so it's new, new to us and seems to be pretty good.
41:08So we're excited to get going and see what it's all about really.
41:12Ron and company are also energized by their time together in Foxtrap.
41:17You always think of your crew as your family because you spend just as much time with those guys as you do your blood family.
41:23Okay, he's off.
41:25You ever want to board?
41:27Yep.
41:28Going through training like this, it sort of keeps it in the guy's mind.
41:32Like I'm not only looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my crew member that's next to me.
41:37We are off.
41:39You want to keep those guys safe.
41:47We're just setting our course now.
41:52It's 200 miles away, 200 nautic miles.
41:55So there's a little bit of a steam.
41:57Probably around 30 hours, give or take.
41:59We should be there around 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
42:03And then after that is game on.
42:14Ron got something to go catch.
42:16We're all there to go catch it.
42:18Coming out here, you want to be getting a full trip to make it feasible, right?
42:23So time is closing in on us now.
42:26It's become a big problem here.
42:29It's caused a lot of issues.
42:30Raised species could thrive all over the island if they got the chance, so we don't want to give that to them.
42:35You just got to brace yourself for the worst and try to do what you can.
42:37See you again.
42:39See you again.
42:42See you again.
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