{"id":22305,"date":"2015-02-25T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22305"},"modified":"2015-02-25T21:03:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:03:45","slug":"scientists-create-southern-ocean-conditions-to-train-sailors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/02\/scientists-create-southern-ocean-conditions-to-train-sailors\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Southern Ocean Conditions to Train Sailors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a laboratory in the north of England, a group of scientists are playing God — or at least, they’re brewing up an almighty storm. At the Extreme Environments Lab, elite sailors are quite literally thrown in the deep end, undergoing harrowing survival training in a pool that is as close to the Southern Ocean as you’ll find under one roof.<\/p>\n

“I think for quite a lot of them it’s all a bit of a game to start with — they’re all jumping in the pool and having a bit of a laugh,” said Alistair Hackett, who runs the three-day advanced sea survival course at South Tyneside College in Newcastle.<\/p>\n

“Then we turn the waves on. Then we turn the rain on and it’s pretty severe — you can’t really breathe properly with it hitting your face. Then we turn the wind on and all of a sudden it’s not quite like going to your local swimming pool anymore. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a laboratory in the north of England, a group of scientists are playing God — or at least, they’re brewing up an almighty storm. At the Extreme Environments Lab, elite sailors are quite literally thrown in the deep end, undergoing harrowing survival training in a pool that is as close to the Southern Ocean as you’ll find under one roof. “I think for quite a lot of them it’s all a bit of a game to start with — they’re all jumping in the pool and having a bit of a laugh,” said Alistair Hackett, who runs the three-day advanced sea survival course at South Tyneside College in Newcastle. “Then we turn the waves on. Then we turn the rain on and it’s pretty severe — you can’t really breathe properly with it hitting your face. Then we turn the wind on and all of a sudden it’s not quite like going to your local swimming pool anymore. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22307,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22305\/revisions\/22307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}