Whitewater Rescue Skills Session

Meeting at the clubrooms at 10am, then heading to Dights.

Bring wetsuit and cold water swimming gear (+/- nose/ear clips/plugs)

Revision of all SRT topics before the actual course next week.

• Throwing throwbags at swimmers
  •  Get spot on, overhand and underhand.
    
• restuffing throw bags and throwing coils
• Making both a z-drag and a pig-rig within 3 minutes. 
• Riverside anchor building. Floating, back-tensioned and equalised. (3:1 and 4:1)
• Going through what kind of across river lines are safe to tension with mechanical advantage.
• Foot entrapment extraction. 
  • What to do and in what order
• Tying and identifying the following knots. With eyes shut. 
  • Figure 8
    • Follow through
    • On a bight
    • Directional 
  • Alpine Butterfly
    
  • Bowline
    
  • Double Fisherman’s
    
  • Water Knot
    
  • Clove Hitch
    
  • Munter Hitch
    
  •     3­wrap
    
  • Prusik
    
  • Klemheist

and much more.