Article: Team trained in Flyer rescue & Flyer stays shut as probe begins (linked articles)
Date: 25th December 2008
Section: Home Pg B1, B2, B3 and Straits Time Pg 1
Date: 25th December 2008
Section: Home Pg B1, B2, B3 and Straits Time Pg 1
Summary: The team who saved passengers out of capsules in the Flyer are actually from Dive-Marine Services, a private company where they are more used to spending their days cleaning windows on high-rise buildings or repairing ships. However, they are the only group trained in rescuing passengers from the 165m tall observation wheel.
The Singapore Flyer is likely to stay shut till New Year, as police said they will only allow operations to resumes only after the Flyer’s structural mechanical systems are certified safe by an internationally recognized body. Police investigations will look into how the problem occurred, how it can be prevented and what measures can put in place to enhance passenger safety.
Reflection:
I think that the rescue team members are more than brave, with a mission to save people from the capsules, so high up. They only had practiced rescue drill twice before, although they have over 2000 hours of rope experience. With only 2 rescue drill before, they could remember all the skills and put them altogether to save. Mr. Mohamed, one of the rescuers featured on the news, where while lowering the eight-year-old boy to safety, he comforted him and asked him questions asking him to close his eyes, all to distract the little boy that he is in the air, high up. Some even arrived in capsule, with food and milk for a hungry baby. In the future, they should always keep snacks in a storage of each capsule within everyone’s reach and that the storage door would open in cases of emergency and is constantly maintained.
In 10 months the Flyer stopped for four times. I think they should investigate further in depth, so that tourists of passengers who get onto the Flyer have a save mind, that they would get to the ground safely even if something similar to the last Flyer incident happened again. Communication between the staffs and passengers should be adequate, such that the passengers can be assured by the staffs and staffs should be at the other end of the intercom to answer passenger’s queries whenever there are. Without the answer to queries, it would make the passenger feel that their safety would be neglected.
Juliana
The Singapore Flyer is likely to stay shut till New Year, as police said they will only allow operations to resumes only after the Flyer’s structural mechanical systems are certified safe by an internationally recognized body. Police investigations will look into how the problem occurred, how it can be prevented and what measures can put in place to enhance passenger safety.
Reflection:
I think that the rescue team members are more than brave, with a mission to save people from the capsules, so high up. They only had practiced rescue drill twice before, although they have over 2000 hours of rope experience. With only 2 rescue drill before, they could remember all the skills and put them altogether to save. Mr. Mohamed, one of the rescuers featured on the news, where while lowering the eight-year-old boy to safety, he comforted him and asked him questions asking him to close his eyes, all to distract the little boy that he is in the air, high up. Some even arrived in capsule, with food and milk for a hungry baby. In the future, they should always keep snacks in a storage of each capsule within everyone’s reach and that the storage door would open in cases of emergency and is constantly maintained.
In 10 months the Flyer stopped for four times. I think they should investigate further in depth, so that tourists of passengers who get onto the Flyer have a save mind, that they would get to the ground safely even if something similar to the last Flyer incident happened again. Communication between the staffs and passengers should be adequate, such that the passengers can be assured by the staffs and staffs should be at the other end of the intercom to answer passenger’s queries whenever there are. Without the answer to queries, it would make the passenger feel that their safety would be neglected.
Juliana
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