Whitewater (Swiftwater) Rescue & Rope Rescue Courses in Colorado with Dvorak Expeditions offers professional instruction with nearly every river activity imaginable.
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PriceWhitewater (Swiftwater) Rescue & Rope Rescue Courses in Colorado with Dvorak Expeditions offers professional instruction with nearly every river activity imaginable.
WHITEWATER RESCUE & EDUCATION COURSES:
From Swiftwater Rescue (SRT I, II, Advanced for the agency and official types) to River Rescue Courses (RRC/Pro for professional and private boaters alike). And from Technical Rope Rescue (practical knowledge for the vertical world), kayak, rafting, SUP (stand up paddleboard), fly fishing, to raft guide training (RGT the most intensive and all-inclusive in the United States it includes the RRCP).
From introductory half-day lessons to comprehensive multi-day courses, we guarantee that we have the course to suit your needs.
Paddlers from novice boaters to experienced guides and professional fire and rescue personnel have participated in our instructional clinics to expand their whitewater skills. Learn basic fundamentals and take on progressively greater challenges to achieve your goals through our professional, personalized instruction.
DVK whitewater rescue instructors have thousands of hours of teaching experience and hundreds of thousands in combined river miles to their credit. With excellent communication skills, they will guide you through the technical and behavioural judgment calls you need to successfully guide the craft of your choice on the river.
Combining the most applicable techniques of many rescue disciplines. These whitewater rafting courses cover many ways to affect the river and flood rescues. The primary objective, however, remains to assure the safety of the rescuers themselves – since so many injuries and deaths during river rescues have been due to the well-intention of rescuers.
Instructors teach and participate in many seminars and conferences, and learn from their students as well, keeping the program at the state-of-the-art. By operating in the field of rescue, traveling the world, and practicing/experiencing new techniques RESCUE 3 International and Sierra Rescue continue to make their certified courses the most up to date and state of the art curriculum available.
Outline of the Whitewater (Swiftwater) Rescue & Rope Rescue Courses in Colorado:
• Introductions and paperwork
• A new way of thinking about rescue
• Understanding: LAST: Locate, Access, Stabilize, and Transport
• Review of skills and options:
• Advanced swimming; aggressive, defensive, barrel roll, swift water entry
• Advanced throw bagging; rope management, decision making, etc.
• Rescue jacket uses and self-rescue; ie; live bait, kayaker extraction, etc.
• Wading and hands-on stabilization
• River rescue scenarios with hands-on practice
• Knots, Hitches, Anchors Review; what you need to know!
• Advanced principles of ropes in river rescue
• Application of simple principles in effective ways
• Paddling onto the scene – organization and priorities of the rescue
• Kayaker, rafter, cats, etc approach
• Retrieval of people and gear
• Effective search
• Evacuation and decision-making process in the river rescue
• Procedures for extrication/ evacuation
• Advanced pin/ rescue scenarios
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