Essential Water Rescue Skills Course
This course equips participants with essential skills for swiftwater rescue operations, including victim rescue, medical care, operational tactics, incident command, and search strategies, ensuring safe and efficient response to water emergencies.

4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
The Essential Water Rescue Skills Course provides you with fast, practical training to manage swiftwater incidents with confidence. Learn scene size-up, risk assessment, visible victim rescue, downstream search strategies, incident command, equipment selection, and cold-water care, plus bystander control and prevention messaging, so your team operates safely, efficiently, and in line with current standards.
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Develop skills
- Swiftwater victim rescue: execute fast, cold-water saves from shore or boat.
- Cold-water medical care: manage airway, CPR, hypothermia, and safe extrication.
- Swiftwater operations: size-up, PPE, rope systems, and boat handling in current.
- Incident command in water rescue: lead teams, coordinate EMS, and control scenes.
- Downstream search and recovery: plan lanes, deploy resources, and document safely.
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