Learn to assess an emergency situation and deploy the safest rescue team or outside emergency services option. Learn how to perform and analyze lifts, shifts, contact rescue, tandem rappels, pick offs, and hauls.
Rescue a rappeler on rappel by lifting them with a rescue rope, unweighting their device so they can solve their problem.
Shifting subject to safety rope so they can solve their problem safely.
Descending a rescue rope and helping a subject rescue themselves while on rappel.
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Learn to construct mechanical advantage systems for hauling.
Every rescue system uses a mechanical advantage lift hold system to unweight and secure the subject safely while preparing for conversion, haul, or pick off rescue technique.
Converting static rigging sytems to lower: Toss n Go, Carabiner Block, & Knot Block.
Rigging a mechanical advantage system to bring the subject back up to the top of the rappel.
Descending to pick off a subject from above and ascending to pick off subject from below.
Shifting subject to safety rope so they can solve their problem safely.
There are a lot of strategies you can utilize to escape pot holes. The two most important considerations when working with your team to escape pot holes are:
Never
Get all of you team into one pothole. Make sure you get one or two team members into a pothole to solve the problem and then they can help the rest of the team. Canyoners have died from hypothermia due to both canyoners being in the pothole and not having a way to escape. Be safe.
Always
Look ahead. Sometimes you have to set up a hand line 3 pot holes ahead to get your team all and all your gear safely through a pot hole sequence.
Ghosting is a form of canyoning where you move through an entire canyon without leaving anything behind. By using retrievable anchor systems, it is possible to complete a canyon without leaving behind any form of natural or bolted webbing anchors. These retrievable anchor systems include a sand trap, water anchor, toggle devices, hooks, CEM. T