The WRT-REC course is for recreational paddlers who wish to have a rescue capability whilst paddling or in a whitewater environment with their peers, eg kayak club members, informal non-paying paddlers completing a river trip.
Course length:
12 hours (2 days)
Course content includes:
- Rescue 3 philosophy
- Training standards
- River hydrology and hazards
- Personal equipment
- Technical and group equipment
- Pre-trip planning
- Risk assessments
- Incident size-up
- Incident management and site control
- Medical considerations
- Night/poor visibility considerations
- Search considerations
- Communications
- Whitewater swimming techniques
- Strainer swim
- Conditional rescues – throwbags
- Shallow water techniques
- People and equipment entrapments
- True/contact rescues - untethered
- True/contact rescues - tethered
- Line crossing methods
- Diagonals/zip lines
- Flips and capsizes
- Boat wraps
- Victim/casualty management
- Knots and anchor systems
- Vector pulls
- Introduction to mechanical advantage
Prerequisites:
- Confident swimmer, with experience of water-based activities (rafting, canoeing, canyoning, sea level traversing etc)
- Minimum age: 18
Cost:
from €250.00