I was reminded of an incident that happened in TD back in 78. We were doing light rescue practice off Dolphin Sub Aqua club building roof.....

There we were on the roof with a war pattern stretcher and assorted lengths of cordage. A casualty(mug more like) was selected,one PMA "Pony" Moore. He was duly dumped on the stretcher.

The "Leader",  a halfwit that had been back classed from Harvey Blue class(no names, no pack drill!),  selected the scaggiest most grotty bit of rope to lash the Casualty into the stretcher. Despite the rest of us telling him it was a bad move to use it he dismissed it.

Down below was the rest of Jenner Class and POMA Chris Henry, "carry on" he orders and so we fling Pony off the roof in his stretcher. We lowered away untill we hear "Haul him up! Haul him up!" We did as we were told,thinking that Pony had lost a lot of weight. Up came the stretcher..........minus the casualty!

What happened was...... the rope parted and pony's top half fell out of the stretcher, as he passed his legs he grabbed the rope which pulled his legs out after him and he landed on his feet on the ground!

We looked over to see a very white faced Pony being treated for syncope! Our first REAL casualty!  How we laughed!  Except poor Pony!