BC SAR Swiftwater Rescue Technician Advanced – Water
Overview
Expand previous Swiftwater Rescue Technician training into the demanding realm of extreme whitewater, and night operations with Swiftwater Rescue Technician Advanced – Water training.
This course focusses on advanced rescue swimming and non-motorized boat handling skills required for “go” rescues in Class III+ swiftwater, and operating in low visibility or darkness.
If your operations take you into canyon environments where high-angle rope rescue techniques are required, consider Swiftwater Rescue Technician Advaned – Water & Rope.
Swiftwater Rescue Technician Advanced – Water Course Details
- Duration
3 days (24 hours, which includes one night session)
- Format
1 day classroom, 2 days on the river (including a night exercise)
- Participants
Maximum 6.
- Prerequisites
- Current SRT1 certification
- 18+ years of age
- In good physical condition
- Strong swimming ability in Class II-III water
- Price
$5,825 per course (+travel)
- Recertification
Receive a discount of $138.75 for every member who’s completed this course in the last three years.
- Annual Training Maintenance
Click here to read about options available for annual guided practice
- Required Equipment
- Drysuit or wetsuit*
- Personal flotation device (Type III or V)*
- Water-sports helmet*
- Class III harness* (or separate chest and sit harnesses)
- Neoprene gloves
- Neoprene footwear with a good walking sole, wading boots, or running shoes
- Flashlight or headlamp
- 3-4 cyalume “light sticks”
- Layers of wool or fleece clothing for under the drysuit/wetsuit including sweater, pants and socks
- Takeaways & Documentation
- Personalized skill sheet signed by the Instructor
- Registration of training record in Rescue 3’s international database
- Certificate of completion
- Rescue 3 ID Card
SRTA – Water Course Outline
- Size-up, pre-planning and Incident Management
- Advanced hydrology: Class III+
- Search techniques
- Flood management
- Boat introduction: types, applications, limitations
- Basic and advanced equipment
- Low head dam and aqueduct consideration
- Go rescues, live bait, tethered swims etc.
- Knots, anchors and mechanical advantage review
- Anchor systems
- Compound mechanical advantage
- Advanced swimming: Class III+
- Basic paddle boat handling: Class III+
- Rescue board
- Night Session – low visibility operations including lighting techniques, rescuer safety, communications, skill practice and containment strategies
- Non motorized boat rescue techniques
- Non Motorized boat flips and right
- Swiftwater search management
- Swiftwater Rescue Team leadership skills
- Advanced containment techniques (rescue curtains)
- Patient packaging and transport in swiftwater environments
- Aquatic rope rescue techniques including vertical access into swiftwater, patient packaging, releasable rescue systems, vertical patient and rescuer retrieval techniques from swiftwater
We also offer this as a private course
Our private training courses ensure personalized hands-on training through human-based scenarios
Private CoursesTraining Maintenance
If you have a group that would like to review their training together, the training maintenance program may be right for you.rnrnYour group pays the instructor’s daily teaching fee and travel costs associated with bringing the instructor to your training location, along with an annual fee to be part of the maintenance program. This is generally a pretty reasonable approach for training departments because:rnu003culu003ern tu003cliu003eit allows us to deliver the training in small chunks every year, rather than in one big chunk every three yearsu003c/liu003ern tu003cliu003eit gives department members more annual hands-on time with their skillsu003c/liu003ern tu003cliu003enew members can integrate into maintenance programs by jumping on an open course from our public scheduleu003c/liu003ernu003c/ulu003ernWe track your members, and their status on course content completion within a three year cycle, which mirrors a traditional three year recertification cycle. It’s an excellent value for the cost, and allows you to review your skills in your own backyard.rnrnThe training maintenance program replaces the need to recertifiy your training on a traditional three year recertification cycle.
Sorry – there’s no individual audit program available for this course.