Friday, Apr 10, 2020 at 20:33
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Yes I highly recommend it as a carpenter and an adventurer,
You can apply as a summerer or a winterer, summerers usually come down for around 4 months and most are returnees as once you come your hooked and this suits a lot of people.
If you apply for winter that means your coming for the summer with everyone else then they leave end of February early March leaving behind just the winter crew to be completely isolated from the rest of the world for 9 months with virtually no way out should something go wrong, numbers go from 94 to 24,
24 hrs daylight during summer and 24 hrs darkness during winter
At the moment it’s 9 hrs of daylight here at Davis station.
In saying all that it is not easy to get in, thousands of people apply each year for only limited positions,
The work is varied as you need to be adaptable and willing to do anything,
Last week I was hanging plaster sheets and building walls in a new building, week before I was out doing seal surveys and sea ice drilling, a few weeks before I was being flown around by hellideck getting dropped off 140klm away from station to do some deep field work, I also was chosen to be trained in Royal
Hobart hospital as a lay surgical assistant as we have 1 Dr and if he needs help I am his surgical scrub nurse, also trained as a fire fighter and search and rescue,
All up it was almost 4 months training then 2 weeks on ship sailing south before I set foot,
Do I recommend it,
Yes yes yes yes
It works for me
My kids are 21 and 24
My wife is used to me travelling outback for months on end by myself
Hope this helps
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