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Subject: Fast Roping
    2/16/2005 12:57:13 AM


Pacific Ocean (Feb. 14, 2005) ? Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Eleven (EODMU-11), Detachment Nine, fast rope from an HH-60H Seahawk helicopter to the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) during an exercise. Carl Vinson is on a scheduled deployment and will arrive in Norfolk, Va., upon completion of her deployment to prepare her for refueling and a complex overhaul. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Inez Lawson.

 
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TC    RE:Fast Roping   2/16/2005 8:06:24 AM
I belive this is actually rappeling; fast roping is done with a thicker rope sliding down firemans pole style
 
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