Water Safety for Expedition Leaders (WSEL)
The Water Safety for Expedition Leaders course is designed for both professional and recreational expedition leaders & team members who lead or work with groups on expeditions where hazards are presented by water. Hazards include but are not limited to rivers, lakes, floods, canals, hot pools.
Contact hours
12 hours (2 days)
Prerequisites:
- Must be a confident swimmer
- Minimum age: 18
Course content includes
- Rescue 3 philosophy
- Training standards and legislation
- Best practice guidelines
- Hydrology and water hazards
- Personal and group equipment
- Water safety pre-planning for expeditions
- Risk assessments
- Managing an incident
- Medical and decontamination considerations
- Introduction to searching rivers
- Introduction to night/poor visibility operations
- Communications
- Moving water swimming techniques
- Conditional rescues
- Shallow water techniques
- Foot and body entrapments
- Strainer swim
- Improvised techniques
- Casualty management
Course standard, learning outcomes and key teaching points
Rescue 3 Europe course standards, learning outcomes and key teaching points
The course standards, learning outcomes and key teaching points are provided as pre- and post-course reference for people involved in the delivery of Rescue 3 courses (eg Rescue 3 training providers, instructors and students). They are not to be used for any other purpose without the express written permission of Rescue 3 Europe.
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Student resources
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Instructor resources
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