U. S. marines' emergency training

Title (Dublin Core): U. S. marines' emergency training
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Training; en Ships
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Title: Hints from the marines on how to keep afloat
extracted text (Extract Text): TO PREPARE them for the time when it
| may pe necessary to abandon ship bY
jumping into the water, the U. s. Marine
Corps i8 teaching its men how to get into
the water safely and, once there, how to stay
afloat bY using pieces of clothing or equip-
ment. Among ‘other things the men are
taught to jump from the stern or bow to
avoid being carried under if the ship cap-
sizes, tO discard their life jackets for swim-
ming under burning oil, and to form groups
in the water to reduce the danger of attack
by sharks. This training was worked out by
staff Sergeant Harry F. McNamara, former
swimming coach at the ‘Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology:
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1943-08
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 143, n. 2, 1943
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 73
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google Digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Matteo Ridolfi; Marco Bortolami (editor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): United States of America