As part of our mission to develop a rescue community, we are asking teams to share their rescue experiences with the blog group. This month, Motiva in Convent, LA relates an interesting real-rescue their team faced. This Motiva team has been working together for 20 years! They practice quarterly to keep their skills sharp, and...
The rescue team from the BP deep water oil platform Nakika trained last week at the Roco Training Center in Baton Rouge. Pictured below is the team with Roco Instructors Russ Kellar and Keith Pridgen and Roco President/CEO Kay Goodwyn. The Nakika is only 8 miles from the Deepwater Horizon, the site of the recent...
38 students representing 11 companies from around the United States participated in Roco’s Rescue I Plus class last week in Baton Rouge. Here’s a class photo with our six instructors (from left to right) Bobby Kauer, Robert “Soup” Campbell, Mike Adams, Dwaynne Ardeneaux, Troy Gardner and Terry Addison. Also pictured is Equipment Manager Lisha Ezell...
Despite the humidity, the Lion Oil team was happy to accommodate a photofinish that includes Roco’s Chief Instructor/Director of Training,Dennis O’Connell (Top Left) and Roco’s President, Kay Goodwyn (Center). What a great job the Lion Oil team continues to do!
Since 1989, Dennis O’Connell has been a technical rescue consultant and professional instructor for Roco. In 2002, he joined the company full-time and is now the Director of Training and a Chief Instructor. As Director of Training, O’Connell heads up Roco’s technical rescue programs and is responsible for curriculum development, instructor training and much more....
