Rescue 3 Whitewater Rescue Technician
Since the 2024 season, we have been offering Whitewater Rescue Technichian training in cooperation with Rescue 3. What sounds a bit unwieldy is an internationally recognized whitewater rescue training course and is considered the standard among WW safety courses for recreational paddlers, kayak instructors and raft guides.
The courses are led by Bijan, who has years of experience with the Rescue 3 courses and is one of the most experienced people in whitewater safety far and wide. Those who successfully complete the course receive a globally recognized certificate, which is often used as a prerequisite for various jobs on and in the river.
Course description
Safety and rescue in white water are big issues. Anyone who is out on the river will benefit from improving their skills in this area. Whether it's you, your fellow paddlers or strangers with whom you happen to be on the same river - sooner or later, dicey situations can arise. That's when your skills, your form on the day and your equipment count!
During the safety course, you will receive theoretical input on dry land - from equipment and rope techniques to principles of safety and rescue. This makes up approx. 1/3 of the course.
In practice, you will learn how to handle yourself and your equipment better on rather mild sections of the river (max. WW 3) and perform simple and more complex techniques, from swimming to pulleys.
After the course, you'll go home knowing that your favorite sport has become a little safer for you and your fellow paddlers.
Would you like to be able to provide help when it's needed? Then this course is just right for you!
Information on the Rescue 3 WRT course:
- Safety on and off the river - whether in a kayak, SUP, packraft, canoe or raft
- Rescue principles
- Fluid mechanics
- Equipment
- Communication
- Scouting and risk assessments
- Medical considerations for whitewater sports
- Swimming and wading in white water
- Litter bag rescues
- Handling clamps
- Knots, pulleys and more complex rope techniques
- Roped swimming
- Tyrolean Oberland (Imst/Landeck region)
To take part in the WRT course, you must
- Have experience in white water - no matter how much, no matter what level of difficulty.
- Be able to swim confidently
- Be in overall good health.
- be at least 18 years old.
- Your complete equipment - come as you go paddling on cold days
- Writing utensils for the theoretical parts
At the end of the course, you will have acquired or expanded the following skills:
- Safety as accident prevention - so that things don't get critical so often
- Rescue yourself and others in white water - so that you know your way around when things get critical
- Self-confidence - you know what you can do and can therefore react more competently
- Obtain the certificate for successful participation in the Rescue 3 Whitewater Rescue Technichian course
