Essential Water Rescue Skills Course
Master essential water rescue skills for firefighting: swift water size-up, cold-water victim rescue, downstream search, incident command, scene control, and evidence-ready documentation to keep your crew, community, and victims safer in fast-moving water.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Essential Water Rescue Skills Course gives you fast, practical training to manage swift water 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.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Swift water victim rescue: execute fast, cold-water saves from shore or boat.
- Cold-water medical care: manage airway, CPR, hypothermia, and safe extrication.
- Swift water 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.
Suggested summary
Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workloadWhat our students say
FAQs
Who is Elevify? How does it work?
Do the courses have certificates?
Are the courses free?
What is the course duration?
What are the courses like?
How do the courses work?
What is the course duration?
What is the cost or price of the courses?
What is an EAD or online course and how does it work?
PDF Course