Sea Kayak Rescues Online Course
Develop your rescue toolbox and techniques
This course will help you develop all of the skills and tools you need to deal with sea kayak related rescues and problems in a wide variety of environments and situations. We have started the course with the ultimate guide to deepwater rescues. We then move onto lessons on towing and situation rescues including injured paddlers before we get stuck into self rescues. The course then takes the rescues we have developed into different environments - rocks, surf and tide race rescues.
These lessons promise to be the go to resource for any paddler looking to build the skills to deal with incidents, rescues and to stay safe on the ocean.
Course modules
Deep water rescue lessons
- Introduction
- Swimmer tasks
- Making contact
- Emptying
- Getting the swimmer back in
- 60 second rescue
Rescue toolbox lessons
- Hand of God
- Scoop rescue
- Assisted paddler
- Bow presentation
- Flooded hatch
Self rescue lessons
- Introduction
- Introduction to back deck scramble
- Back deck scramble - Legs
- Back deck scramble - Empty
- Back deck scramble - On to kayak
- Reentry roll
- Paddlefloat rescues
Towing toolbox lessons
- Introduction
- Types of tow
- Clipping on and rope management
- Long and short tows
- Towing rafts
- Contact tows
- Contact tow systems
Rock rescue lessons
- Introduction
- Strategies and Tactics
- Swimming out
- Toggle tows
- Quick rescues
- Towing out
- Tow Assisted rescues
- Split task rescues
Wind rescue lessons
- Introduction
- DWR adaptations
- Moving swimmers, equipment and paddlers
- Separated swimmers
Tide rescue lessons
- Strategies and Tactics
- Deep Water Rescue
- Grab and Go
- Anchor Tows
- Self Rescues
Surf rescue lessons
- Introduction
- Coaching a swimmer
- Swimmer rescues
- Rescuing equipment
- Self rescues
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Anja, Norway
Great videos that really shows all the aspects of different strokes and skills. would recommend it for both novice kayakers as well as experienced paddlers. Lots of useful tips for me as a coach too.
Kevin, UK
This course is brilliant - very well put together with high definition footage and easy to understand descriptions of techniques. I have used much of the course material on the water and in theory and it is faultless. I just keep going over and over and it never gets old. Great job guys - I thoroughly recommend to beginner, intermediate and enthusiasts alike - great stuff
Lee, USA
Videos are brilliantly shot, simple to follow. Love the use of multiple angles, really helps to understand the full picture of a movement. Great resource, amazing!
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