Whitewater Canyon Technician – Recreational (WCT-REC)
The Whitewater Canyon Technician – Recreational is designed to people who want to go canyoning recreationally, and gives students the basic whitewater and rescue skills to safely navigate easy whitewater canyons with their colleagues.
Contact hours
12 hours (2 days)
Prerequisites:
- Confident swimmer, with experience of water-based activities (canyoning, sea level traversing etc)
- Minimum age: 18
Course content includes
- Rescue 3 philosophy
- Training standards
- Best practice guidelines
- Canyon/river hydrology and hazards
- Personal equipment
- Technical and group equipment
- Assessing risk
- Medical considerations
- Flash flood awareness
- Communications
- Whitewater swimming techniques
- Conditional rescues – throwbags
- Shallow water techniques
- Strainer swim
- Foot/body entrapments
- Introduction to knots and anchors
- Handheld diagonals/zip lines
- Belay systems
- Subsurface equipment recovery
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
Student resources for Rescue 3 courses can be accessed here.
Instructor resources
Instructor resources for Rescue 3 courses can be accessed here.
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