Rick McElrath

Experience

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  Alaska Marine Safety Education Association

  Jan 1999 - now

  IMO and USCG Certified Marine and Wilderness Safety and Survival Instructor

  I contract with AMSEA biannually to provide Search and Rescue Training for the NSF (National Science Foundation.) NSF contracts support personnel for the United States Antarctic Program, (USAP). I train these personnel deploying to the Antarctic Peninsula, at Palmer Station, Anvers Island. We train for smallboat handling, search planning and management, man overboard recovery, cold water immersion survival, and survival behavior.

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  USCG ALC/ALSE Technical Services

  May 2007 - now

  ALSE Specialist

  • Aviation Life Support Equipment Specialist for USCG ALSE Technical Services, Aviation Logistics Center, Elizabeth City, NC.• ALSE research, testing and implementation.• Revising the 13520.1 Aviation Life Support Manual, and the Aviation Life Support Equipment Process Guide.• Managing the 'second' CG Aviation aircrew 406 Mhz PLB implementation program.