On my recent trip to Halifax I did a session of underwater egress training in a simulator that dunked an entire simulated aircraft cockpit from a crane into a giant pool and turned it upside down and -- with instruction each time -- had to open the door underwater and get out and surface.
Albert Bohmier is the company president and invited me. The firm is a past CABC award winner.
Check out www.survivalsystemsgroup.com to find out more about the company.
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Ahh, but who knows the origin of the word "egress"?
1538, from L. egressus, from egredi "go out," from ex- "out" + -gredi, comb. form of gradi "step, go."
Or is this a reference to PT Barnum?
It was latin first.
PT Barnum did indeed post a sign, "This way to the Great Egress", and people who went through the curtain found themselves outdoors.
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