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Whitewater Rescue Technician & Wilderness First Aid
4 days of realistic training and practice in an amazing river environment
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Laragh Laragh Wicklow Ireland
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About this event
The Rescue 3 Europe Whitewater Rescue Technician course is designed for river users who require advanced rescue capability in a whitewater environment.
Course content includes:
- Wilderness First Aid
- Casualty management
- Evacuation
- Incident management
- Rescue 3 philosophy
- Training standards
- River hydrology and hazards
- Personal equipment
- Technical and group equipment
- Pre-trip planning
- Risk assessments
- Incident size-up
- Operating at night/ in poor visibility
- Introduction to searching rivers
- Communications
- Whitewater swimming techniques
- Strainer swim
- Conditional rescues – throwbags
- Shallow water techniques
- Complex entrapments and cinches
- True/contact rescues -
- Tethered line crossing methods
- Tensioned diagonals/zip lines
- Flips, rights and crew/client recovery
- Complex boat pins and wraps
- Tethered boat techniques
- Knots and anchor systems
- Vector pulls
- Tensioning systems and mechanical advantage
- Simple belay systems
Prerequisites: Confident swimmer, with experience of water-based activities (rafting, kayaking, canoeing, canyoning, coasteering, etc)
Minimum age: 18.
Cost is €200 per person. (Course is normally €350 but is subsidised by €150 per person by a grant from the IASTT).
€100 non refundable deposit secures place.