We learned a rescue from the BCU guys called the 'curl rescue'. This is my take on it after one quick practice session (just yesterday, so it is still very fresh in my mind). It is supposed to be a good deep water/rough water rescue. As with any rescue having it demo'ed by someone who knows what they are doing really helps. This one seems worthy of merit. I was pretty wiped by the time we did this, and between the stuff on my PFD front and the stuff on my rescuer's deck I could not get up. (I have never failed to do this before ... I felt like a sea slug!) A third kayak came around to give me a way to push with my feet and I finally got in. This taught me some good lessons about deck clutter, PFD clutter, and fatigued paddler rescuing (the legs are often stronger than the arms :-). Here's how it goes: -The boat flips. -The rescuer grabs the flipped boat, orientation no matter, and holds on to it, pulling it parallel and alongside. (It is NOT upright) -The swimmer goes around to the front of the rescuer's boat (following their hull trying to obtain the security of the rescuer's boat's bowlines as quickly as possible) -The swimmer gives their paddle to the rescuer (if handy) and the two paddles are used together to help hold the boats together, spread across and braced/leaned on -The swimmer pulls themselves onto the foredeck (deck clutter is way bad here) perpendicular to the boat, torso balanced on the deck -The rescuer now has a firm handle on the swimmer if necessary -A chance to say "what ho" and when all is well, the swimmer flips their own boat over (the "curl", like curling weights) -Then the swimmer gets into their boat -Then this finished up like most, with pumping and sanity checking, and all of that. Some of the points on this one were: -keeping the boat unflipped in rough water, means you won't waste energy turing it over just to be swamped by waves -the swimmer is in view and more manageable Anyway, no one in the class knew this one, so I thought maybe others would find it interesting. jen -- Jennifer Joy SBC Technology Resources Austin,TX jjoy_at_tri.sbc.com 512.372.5517 fax:512.372.5591 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Mar 23 1998 - 12:09:59 PST
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