Surface Water Rescue — ADVANCED

This two-day advanced module develops the ability to manage concurrent problems, changing conditions and coordinated team operations.

Training scope

• Multiple casualties and competing priorities.
• Safe contact with panicking or aggressive casualties.
• Reaching, securing, transporting and recovering an unconscious casualty.
• Organising operations farther from shore and on larger bodies of water.
• Low-light and night operations.
• Fundamentals of surface search and use of the last seen point.
• Using rescue boards, sleds and other flotation systems.
• Emergency procedures and safety-team interventions.
• Task allocation and coordination between rescuers, shore personnel, medical teams and rescue craft.
• Complex scenarios with review of decisions and organisation.

Skills developed during training

Participants develop integrated techniques and team organisation for surface operations. Diving, underwater search and specialist swiftwater techniques are not included.

Who we train

Water rescuers and teams progressing beyond basic training.

How we train

Team drills, complex tasks and operational scenarios with decision review over two days.

Settings and connections

Water selected to suit the programme and safety arrangements. Coordination with shore personnel, medical teams and rescue craft.