Rescue 3 Whitewater Rescue Technician PRO

Rivers: New, Gauley, Meadow, Cherry

Length: 3 days

Dates: May 12, 2025 – May 14, 2025

Price: $350

Meals: Lunch will be provided each day of instruction

Prerequisites: This course is designed for professional river users like raft guides and safety kayakers with existing river knowledge and experience along with confident whitewater swimming skills. The minimum age is 18.

Course Content Includes

• Rescue 3 philosophy
• Training standards
• Best practice guidelines
• River hydrology and hazards
• Personal equipment
• Technical and group equipment
• River running considerations
• Assessing risk
• Managing an incident
• Medical considerations
• Night/poor visibility considerations
• Introduction to searching rivers
• Communications
• Whitewater swimming techniques
• Strainer swim
• Conditional rescues – throwbags
• Shallow water techniques
• Foot/body entrapments
• Knots and anchor systems
• Tensioning systems and mechanical advantage
• Tethered rescues
• Line crossing methods
• Tensioned diagonals/zip lines
• Boat pins and wraps
• Tethered boat techniques
• Victim/casualty management
• Belay systems
• Scenarios
• Flips, rights and crew/client recovery