Swiftwater Rescue - Operations
10 Hours / 1 Day
Pre-Requisites: Swiftwater Rescue - Awareness
The Operations level uses a team-building environment to develop a systematic approach to water rescue.This course is for personnel who operate and search in still or moving water environments, classified as low to medium risk, and are involved in a support function to a water/flood rescue technician or team
Book NowMain Teaching Points
- Individual & team shallow water crossings
- Self-rescue
- Defensive and combat swimming with ferry angles
- Ferry angles
- Log jam and strainers entrapment
- Medical considerations (hypothermia, c-spine and patient packaging)
- Mechanical advantage (simple and compound)
- Anchoring and rigging in the swiftwater environment
- Team positions and incident management
- Risk assessment and site evaluations
- Rescue preplanning and management
- Continuous loop crossing
- Victim tow swim
- Live bait contact rescues
- Rescue board rescues
- Inflated fire hose rescue
- Tensioned diagonals
- Team scenarios
- Individual proficiency evaluations
- Team evaluations
- Written exam
Main Teaching Points
(As per NFPA 1006 and 1670 JPR's)
Awareness Level
- Recognize the need for technical rescue resources at an incident
- Establish scene safety zones
- Identify and support an Operations- or Technician-level incident
- Size up an incident
Operations Level
- Construct rope systems particular to the swiftwater rescue needs of the AHJ
- Support operations, given a designated mission
- Assess moving water conditions
- Perform a non-entry rescue in the swiftwater and flooding environment
- Terminate an incident
Upcoming Sessions
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