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White Water Safety Course

White Water Safety Course

£200.00
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Do you paddle on moving water? Do you want the skills to stay out of trouble? Want to know what to do if either you or others get into trouble on the river? Then the White Water Safety course (WWS) is for you!

Your course will support you to consider safe practices, provide practical solutions to common issues and appropriate responses to incidents, providing peace of mind when venturing out onto the rivers.

This 2 day course is aimed at those paddling as peers and covers a range of topics that include emergency planning & procedures, chase boating, equipment rescues and scenarios and much more.This course is designed to support paddlers to be independent participants on grade 2(3) white water rivers. Paddlers can access the course with their preferred craft which can include kayaks, rafts, canoes and stand up paddleboards.

The White-Water Safety course is a 2-day programme that consists of 9 modules.

White Water Safety and Rescue (WWS) Training Course Outline
  • Motivations and Decisions
  • River Trip
  • Emergency planning & procedures
  • Review and reflections
  • Chase boating and equipment rescues
  • Swimming and rescues
  • Retrieving people and equipment
  • Extracting methods
  • Review and reflections

There will be opportunities to develop and progress your safety skills and meet like-minded people during the course. Many of our course candidates develop long lasting friendships, connections and contacts.

More Details on the White Water Safety course can be found here 

https://paddlesuptraining.com/courses/white-water-safety-wws/#page-content

 

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