Rescue Methods FR1: Water Rescue - Throwbag Fundamentals

RM Instructor Dalan Zartman and Doug Hyland demonstrate the fundamentals of shore based rescue using throwbags.

[alexicn]

thank you, this was a very helpful video. particularly the demonstration of how the victim should receive the rope.

[alexanderschooler]

Is there a throw bag you would recommend I can keep in my car just as a regular person?

[winstonsmiths]

Wow, what a great video! I will have a throw-bag ready for my travels. Southern California, EVERY year people get swept away by flooded in cement viaducts and flash-flooded creek and riverbeds. May be a one in a million that I would have to use it but it is a cheap form of insurance. I assume that a nylon rope is being used? Or at least some type of synthetic rope that is buoyant?

[alexandrevaliquette]

1:22 If a figure 8 is a NFPA requirement, I would like to see the reference number.
A knot take 3 second to make.
And the knot should only allow a biner to clip in it. The loop is way to large in this video.

I've been trained many times with 3 different whitewater rescue organisation and met about 12 instructors and all of them strongly advise to have a free rope with no knot.
I'm a former mine rescue technician (firefighter + first aid + hazmat + ice) and an active 20 years whitewater rescue instructor in Canada.
And yeah, I can count at least one casualty directly related to a knot who got entangle underwater. A free rope would have avoid the death of that experienced raft guide.

Other than that, I TRULY appreciate when other instructor post their video. We are all learning from each others and make our training better every time.

Alexandre Valiquette

[amycaperchione]

Hi there, this video is perfectly informative. May I use this content on my website? I won’t use without your permission. Thank you

[mattphelan]

Oh man they aren't ready for the creaturecraft LOL. see you guys at Gauley 2017

[nickteague]

Can i get a digital copy of this video?! I would like to incorporate it into my Swift Water Training course for my company (Texas Public Service Training Academy).

Very detailed, thorough, and effective guys 👍🏻

[lukesince]

Wow...

This video is scary.
There are so many issues that i have with this. For starters, knots in the rope?!

The "clean line principle" is one of the most basic safety fundamentals out there and widely accepted as best practice.
I have personally attended a fatality caused by ignoring this so i find it mind blowing to see a so called professional rescue training provider advocating a knot in the rope!!
Shocking to say the least.