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River
Rescue
RIVER RESCUE is no longer
offered as an official program through ORCKA.
If you, or your group is interested in a weekend tutorial let us know.
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After a Moving Water course,
people are usually curious about a River Rescue Clinic. With
some
knowledge of the river comes the desire for more knowledge and more
practice in River Rescue techniques. That is precisely what this
24 hours of instruction over a weekend is, a basic to intermediate,
river rescue course from a canoe
tripping
perspective, to gear you up for your next trip.
Pre-requisite:
Moving Water 1a
Course Content:
| Safety
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Theory |
Skills
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- defensive swimming in
current,
- aggressive swimming in
current,
- canoe
over canoe rescues,
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- outfitting boats for
whitewater,
- personal and group safety,
- organizing
and leading whitewater trips,
- rating the difficulty of
whitewater,
- rescue
hierarchy,
- rescue organization
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- knots and ropes
- self rescue techniques
- shore based rescue techniques
- boat based/assisted rescue
techniques
- in water rescue techniques
- boat
recovery techniques... actual wrapped canoes and Z-drags!
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We pin canoes which actually need a Z-drag to extricate as part of our
course....
and sometimes pins become wraps!
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