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Instructor Resources
As an Instructor, you will be asked a thousand questions! Having diverse background knowledge about your field is important for students to feel like they have that added value when their questions are answered. It's also OK to say, I don't know, but I'll look that up and get back to you! Not only having additional info on hand, but being able to refer your students to the original content is helpful so that they may follow up later when they are not soggy and exhausted. Please be advised that some of these links show drowning and accidents.
SWR Curriculum
The OFFICIAL ACA L4 SWR Curriculum outline
SWR Teaching Points online article by Jim Coffey
DC Rescue Curriculum page has a nice break down of the L4 curriculum
Robert Kauffman SWR Manual a free online and printable resource
American Whitewater Safety Code online and printable manual
Night ops strategies for success online article
Jim Coffey Media
Leading Steep interview podcast episode
Rescue For River Runners video series
Hypothermia
WMS Best Practice Guidelines: scientific paper
Drowning
Gear Garage Zach and Chris Davis interview
• The article Chris mentioned can be found here https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1....
• A shorter summary can be found here https://wms.org/magazine/magazine/150....
• The Seal Rite CPR mask can be found here https://thelifeguardstore.com/seal-ri...
Gear
Adaptive and Veteran
Knots
Flows and Predictions
NOAA forecasts
USGS current conditions
Know before you go: River Info, Books & Online Trip Report Blogs
WEBORT river hazard reporting tool in Oregon
Soggy Sneakers book
New School Guide book
*if new school guide is sold out online, you may be able to get them from Tanya at Fluid Strokes
Links from Mark Hirst, Rescue 3 Europe
(videos of actual fatalities and accidents)
Dragon boat accident low head dams
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgyFh6V6KI
Elephant weir India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLbpK4xXvj0
kayaker in Hole Corsica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYI67uZkNvQ
Rescue Entrapment (PFD stuck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Bks6mwGHw
Open carabiners on rafts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsUX4uGFql0
Unconscious swimmer kayak rescue with a cow tail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=D-tKJbmcGh4&t=1s
Something to show gung ho flip happy raft guides to calm them down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RFuVzqTLL4
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