Sunday, August 3, 2008

Lundy Charters Begins Offering Custom Training Courses

Maritime and Wilderness Medical Training


Our Wilderness and Maritime Medical training courses always present up-to-date information and techniques. Our lead instructors are all active members of the Wilderness Medical Society and other professional organizations, and currently practice medicine in remote environments and are on the forefront of advances in the care and treatment of patients in the on land and at sea. Our goal is not only to teach the standard curricula, but also to help our students further understand the realities of providing care in the environments they will be working. Our courses are often taught onsite to groups using their own equipment. We understand that each of our students will face unknown challenges in the future so we help to better prepare them to face these challegnes by preparing them in the environment in which they will operate.


Wilderness and Maritime Medical care doesn’t happen in classrooms, it happens in the field. We locate our courses accordingly. Whether we are training a megayacht crew to respond to emergencies aboard the vessel anywhere in the world, a guide service working on Alaskan rivers, or an expedition to explore an unmapped wilderness; we specially design your course to give you the most realistic training experience available. When possible, we will bring the course to you and offer our training on your own equipment, in your area of operation.



Training Courses:

Wilderness First Responder (WFR)

Maritime First Responder
Wilderness First Aid
Medical Person In Charge (US Coast Guard

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Waterborne illness at Sea....

Captain Jim underwent treatment for a waterborne illness while at sea during out last trip to the Bahamas.....more details to come......

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

More Pictures from Medwar

Courtesy of the organizers of Medwar we were able to acquire some pictures of the team during the race.

Jim Baker getting out of a canoe after being "mauled by a bear"

Alan Harper leads Brian Harper and Jim Baker through a section of swamp

Andrew Plyler follows Jim Baker through a deep section of swamp, we decided to jump for it.

Andrew Plyler makes a big splash jumping over a deep section of swamp.

Andrew Plyler gets medications out to treat a patient

Jim Baker and Alan Harper wet gauze to treat a "burn" that Brian Harper sustained at one of our medical scenario stations.

Brian Harper leads Jim Baker, Alan Harper, and Andrew Plyler as we hold our packs over our heads to cross a deep swamp.

Prerace briefings for all the competitors. You can see our team just under the Medwar Headquarters banner.

Attending the prerace briefing, Brian Harper and Jim Baker pictured on the left.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

The Race

The race began around 1100 A.M. from a camp ground within Fort Gordon. The race course spanned eighteen miles and consisted of nine wilderness medical scenarios and twenty five questions stations. Our team scored perfectly on the wilderness medical scenarios and answered twenty of the twenty five questions correctly. The course was physically demanding and consisted of different sections, requiring the use of different outdoor skills. These sections involved: running, mountain biking, canoing, orienteering, and wading through north Georgia swamps.

We crossed the finish line 12th of 29 teams and are waiting for the results once the final time penalties for both questions and wilderness medicine scenarios are in......


The team before the start of the race. Jim Baker, Andrew Plyler, Alan Harper, and Brian Harper.

Brian Harper after the team completed a canoing section of the race

Wading through a north Georgia swamp while carrying packs over our heads

Alan Harper and Brian Harper changing gear after wading through the swamp

Andrew Plyler changing into fresh socks for the last half of the race after wading through the swamp


The soaking wet team just after the race. Brian Harper, Alan Harper, Jim Baker, and Andrew Plyler.


Brian Harper stretches after a hard race.

Friday, March 28, 2008

Team Arrives in Georgia

The team arrived safely in Georgia and sets up camp in Fort Gordon for tomorrows race.

Our Team:

Brian Harper, WEMT-B DEMT. Divers Alert Network

Jim Baker, WEMT-B Lundy Charters

Andrew Plyler, WFR Captial Area YMCA

Alan Harper, WFR University of North Carolina


Sorting our medical Equipment


Setting Up Camp

The racers gather in the campground before the race

The MEDWAR Challenge Race Headquarters

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Lundy Charters Founder to participate in MEDWARS

Captain Jim Baker is joined by longtime friend Brian Harper of Divers Alert Network to compete in the MEDWAR challange. Welcome to MedWAR (Medical Wilderness Adventure Race) where we combine wilderness medicine with adventure racing to create unique events designed to teach and test wilderness survival and medicial skills. http://www.medwar.org/