Safety and Professional swiftwater rescue
Swiftwater Rescue Level I "Operational": Includes safety rules and principles, environmental analysis and risk management, safety perimeter, rescue organization and intervention, roles and responsibilities of different rescuers, including self-rescue techniques, staged approach, and indirect-contact rescue techniques – 20 hours.
Swiftwater Rescue Level II "Technician": Focus on intervention management practice through simulations, search techniques and intervention management, direct-contact rescue techniques, ferryboat technique, roped swimmer, stabilization, rescue basket, active treatment of a person in hypothermia – 25 hours.
Ice Rescue and Cold Water Rescue - Professional
This training aims to develop the fundamental rescue and intervention management techniques on ice and in cold water in both calm and moving water "mixed conditions." It focuses on understanding the basic safety and ice rescue principles. It is intended for workers who operate within a water rescue team. The goal is for all team members to be operational by the end of the course.
The training consists of two levels that meet the requirements of NFPA 1006, Chapter 20, 2021.
Ice Rescue Level I and II "Operational and Technician": Includes safety rules and principles, environmental analysis, ice and risk management, safety perimeter, rescue organization and intervention management, roles and responsibilities of various rescuers, including techniques for moving without a rescue boat to secure the area, techniques for approaching a distressed person, self-rescue techniques, indirect and direct rescue techniques, including the use of an ice screw – 20 hours.
Certificate Validity: 2 years
Ice Rescue Level II "Technician": Includes techniques for moving with or without a rescue boat to secure the area, self-rescue techniques with a rescue boat, focus on technical practice of intervention management with Team A and Team B, stabilization, rescue basket, active treatment of a person in hypothermia, and search techniques and intervention management at night – 25 hours.
Certificate Validity: 2 years