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Airboating in Tanzania

Airboatcapt2

Airboatcapt2

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Here are some of the pictures you guys been asking about.

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Brian that's some cool shots --- Can't wait to get together again so Karen and can hear the whole story.
 
What a beautiful place. I'll bet getting good quality fuel down there is a problem though.

Faron, after I saw those swift water pictures you posted the other night, I think I'll pass on saying he's a better photographer than a driver ..... :lol: .
 
Why does that have Search and Rescue on the side of a tour boat? Those other pictures on the flooded Ohio rivers show a real search and rescue boat. I can sure see why you picked this guy. He has to know his stuff. I am impressed.
 
I have ridden with Brian and he dose know how to drive an airboat but he has the guts to go ware most of us would think twice about trying to go... I first think of MY safety and then the $$$$ involved but then I will jump in the drivers seat and grit my teeth and try it --- Don't take me wrong Brian knows what he is doing...
 
I have about 100 pictures from the trip and they are as good as what you would see in the National Geographic book. He must have a great camera.
 
I can tell you guy's from my own experience I worked with Brian for seven days in New Orleans and the is not another Airboat operator in the entire world that I would rater work with on a Rescue than Brian Edwards, I guess that's why he's my Wing man when we work Rescues together not saying there aren't some fantastic Airboat operators out there but for Rescue work Brian would be my first choice.
 
Aw shucks guys, yer making me blush.. :oops: :oops: I've just been lucky enough to have some great teachers.. :wink: I may be decent at rescue, but I'd be lost trying to do the type of airboating most of you do in the glades and such...
I can honestly say that I constantly learn new things every time I read this web site... Everyone here is the greatest!! :D
Hey Wingman, I spent 3 hours on the ice Saturday. 12 degrees with a chill factor of
-9 degrees sitting still. Needless to say I kept the speed down real slow. Er, well except for the few times I just had to nail the throttle on the areas that had good snow cover... Nailing a 502 WOT on snow is an unbelievable acceleration rush.. :shock: Stopping, now thats another story......
Brian
 
Olf Art,

The "barge", as we so lovingly named it, was purchased as a tour boat and if needed, a rescue boat too. When I left, the Mara River had risen over 12 feet and was expected to stay that way for about a month... It may have been used for flood rescue before it's use for tours.... I got that airboat stuck more times than I care to remember... Cutting and hacking with machetes was the name of the game for going upriver for the first time... I'll be real happy if I never see anymore water Hyacin.
Brian
 
Hay Bwana Brian

From what I see what you were running in over in Africa does not look much different from what we run in Florida except we don't have Elephants and Zebra's and critters like that running around
 
Brian I had a2 day rescue airboat driving class for a fire dept this last week end NW of Midland --- Sat it was +17 Sunday we started at 9am it was +7 and when I left at 2pm it had climbed to +15 with a 20+ mph wind Those boys learned a lot on Sunday with the wind when I put 5 - 2X4X 12" on the ice around 30 feet apart and they had to drive through them.. Boy I am looking forward to when we can run for a couple of day on the same water again.
 
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