Al8 - Sunday, May 6, 1984 - North Shore News

Realistic down to last detail

From page A17

not carried through.
Instead, Munnik was

Half an hour later, with all
boats docked at the Wigwam

debriefing session would
have seemed overly-critical.

sometimes lengthy discussion
on seemingly minor failings.

Arm wasn’t a case of playing
‘let's pretend’’. Some night

carefully rolled onto a stret- Inn for the night, he was up Talk, while it lasted, alter- They weren't, of course. this summer it may go exactly
boat when the call went out. cher and carried to a waiting and around. nated between praise for in- Because what happened like this.
Unit members (largely a Port’ boat to receive treatment. To an outsider, the dividual effort and Saturday night on Indian Only it will be for real.
Moody contingent) met off

Boulder Island, south of
Donovan’s Deep Cove water-
front home, and waited for

details.
Those came over the radio
from ‘‘exercise control’’,

which told us that two situa-
tions would be requiring our
assistance. One was the
beached boat (Munnik’s) and
the other, a broken down red
and white vessel (Morris’s).
The general location of both
was somewhere north of
Boulder Island.

On-scene commander Don
Tyrell led the action, and the
assignments were divided
among members. Hot Toddy
was assigned the beached
craft, and after taking
aboard crew members Brian
Rand and Brian
Woodington, we headed out
towards Bedwell Bay.

Donovan, who has seen
more than a few real life
disasters and was recently
awarded a certificate for his
role in one rescue, coasted his
craft along the inlet’s beaches
while the two others gave
directions and manned the
searchlight. Veteran
members such as Donovan
were asked not to provide
much assistance; the goal of
the exercise was to give less
experienced members an op-
portunity to take charge.

For Woodington and
Rand, the responsibility was
something new. They watch-
ed intently — often, silently
— taking turns panning the
searchlight along the shore-
line as we climbed,
sometimes at a snail’s pace,
further up the inlet.

Donovan maintained cons-
tant radio contact with others
in the search. At one point,
we received a call from an
anonymous boater asking us
to wait for him.

“If you wait, I'll give you
guys a hand,” said the caller.

‘‘Thanks, but this 1s just an
exercise,’’ was the reply.

We pushed on, searching
north of the Bunzten power
house, inching the searchlight
back over already-explored
shoreline, making sure we
hadn't missed anything

‘*This could take a while,’’
Donovan had said And he

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