First Aid Quiz
1. One of your crew has just been pulled from the water unconscious and is bleeding heavily from a head wound.  Which should you do first?
  • Check the victim’s pulse
  • Check that the airway is open
  • Use compression to stop the bleeding
2. For a strain or a sprain, which should you not do right after the injury?
  • Apply heat
  • Apply ice
  • Elevate the extremity
3. What can be used to help prevent ear infections in tropical waters?
  • Flush ears with a solution of 50% vinegar and 50% rubbing alcohol after diving
  • Use silicon or rubber ear plugs while in the water
  • Wear a neoprene hood when diving
4. What’s the best way to ensure that cuts and scrapes don’t become infected in tropical waters?
  • Clean with salt water and leave uncovered
  • Clean with a bacterial disinfectant, apply antibiotic ointment and leave uncovered
  • Clean with disinfectant, apply antibiotic ointment and cover with a bandage
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There is something in common between the arts of sailing and climbing. Each is intimately concerned with elemental things, which from time to time demand from men who practice those arts whatever self-reliance, prudence, and endurance they may have. The sea and the hills offer challenges to those who venture upon them and in the acceptance of these and in meeting of them as best he can lies the sailor’s or mountaineer’s reward. An essential difference is, perhaps, that the mountaineer usually accepts the challenge on his own terms, whereas once at sea the sailor has no say in the matter and in consequence may suffer more often the salutary and humbling emotion of fear

H.W. Tilman, Mischief in Patagonia