Safety & Rescue

This program provides paddlers with the necessary safety awareness to ensure their safety and the safety of others.

Prerequisite: Core Techniques or equivalent

2011 Price: $140.00 which includes equipment or $95.00 if you have your own.

Frequent Paddler Price: $130.00 which includes equipment or $85.00 if you have your own.

Location 1: Annsville Creek Paddlesport Center

lat/lon: N41.2974/W73.9380

Location 2: Norrie Point Paddlesport Center

lat/lon: N41.8339/W73.9415

In addition, it provides paddlers with the rescue skills they can use to help themselves and/or others in difficulty.

The rescue skills covered will include;

• Group rescues
• Self rescues
• Eskimo rescues
• All in rescue
• Rescuing a trapped paddler
• Short and long tows
• Swimming with your kayak
• Carrying a swimmer on your kayak

and more.

It is important to have the equivalent of our Core Techniques class skills and a willingness to capsize to get the most from this program.

This is a program all kayakers should take more then once. Our staff loves to teach it as we get a chance to practice all of these skills. As long as you are happy in the water, it's a fun program to take.

Topics include:Self and group rescues, safety equipment, communication, signaling equipment, effects of cold water, how to dress, towing, risk assessment, CLAP, manual handling and unknown incidents. Self, Team, Victim, Equipment will be the protocol used throughout the program.