Rigging for Rescue - The Seminar
7 course days

Course Description:

Wilderness Safety Systems offers a seven day (70hr) Rigging for Rescue seminar. Skills are demonstrated and practiced throughout the day the schedule remaining flexible to account for weather conditions.

Prerequisite:

This course is open to all individuals who have a solid understanding of rope work technologies and are willing to share in a collective base of rope work knowledge.

Course Highlights:

• Exploring efficient and effective raising and lowering systems
• Steep embankment evacuations
• Litter handling techniques and A-frames
• Misconceptions about rope stretch and peak force
• Useful rope rescue physics principles
• The difference between simple, compound and complex pulley systems
• Why many commonly used belay techniques are actually unsuitable for rescue-sized loads
• The mechanics of the Kootenay Highline System
• The realities of people's "real" gripping ability
• How equalizing anchor systems can be a misguided approach

  
  
  See the Rigging for Rescue website for more course information.