The Whitewater Rescue Technician - Professional (WRT-PRO) course is designed for professional river users who require a rescue capability in a whitewater environment, eg raft guides, safety kayakers. Recreational paddlers should take the WRT-REC course.
Course length:
3 days (18 hours) plus night exercise.
Course content includes:
- Rescue 3 philosophy
- Training standards
- River hydrology and hazards (advanced)
- Personal equipment
- Technical and group equipment
- Pre-trip planning
- Risk assessments
- Incident size-up
- Incident management and site control
- Medical considerations
- Operating at night/ in poor visibility
- Introduction to searching rivers
- Communications
- Whitewater swimming techniques (advanced)
- Strainer swim
- Conditional rescues – throwbags (advanced)
- Shallow water techniques
- Complex entrapments and cinches
- True/contact rescues - untethered
- 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
- Victim/casualty management
- Knots and anchor systems
- Vector pulls
- Tensioning systems and mechanical advantage
- Simple belay systems
- Boat on a highline (optional)
- Scenarios
Cost:
from €350.00