Swiftwater Rescue Field Guide (Spiral-bound)

by Slim Ray (Illustrator), Jan AtLee (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

Review
"Ray's book will be invaluable to give public safety professionals a basic awareness of swiftwater rescue concerns, techniques, and hazards." -- 9-1-1 Magazine March/April 1998

"SWIFTWATER RESCUE" contains much of the basic principles of whitewater for the inexperienced. [Unlike River Rescue] This book is focuses more on employing "heavy" technical rescue equipment up to the use of helicopters being available with professional rescue organizations...it is a stunning book, impressing the reader with many photos and drawings. "The USA's top expert on safety in whitewater..." -- Alpiner Kayak Club TIP (Munich, Germany) December 1997

"[I]t would be difficult to question the credentials of the author." "[A] goldmine of information in a well-presented and comprehensive package" "Swiftwater is only one aspect of aquatic rescue but it is the one which requires most preplanning, training and equipping if a rescue is to have a satisfactory outcome. It is certainly not prudent for your organization to buy some throwlines and some buoyancy and hope to muddle through when your water hazards become fast moving water hazards.

"Read this book and you will at least be more aware of your shortcomings and how they might be addressed.

"A brief opening chapter sets the scene and is followed by a vital chapter on Hydrology. This is the sort of stuff that really good white water kayakers and rafters have learnt over the years often through bitter experience but fledgling rescue services need to take on board more rapidly. Identification of the features in a fast moving body of water and how to manoeuvre into or around them is well documented here. A sobering fatal incident is recounted in the book's prologue in which simply identifying the difference between a breaking wave and a hydraulic wave was all that stood between success and failure. Illustrations abound and whenever you think of a question it seems to be answered a little further on." -- TECHNICAL RESCUE Magazine (UK) No. 14 Summer 1997

A true stocking filler in that this is the only thing in this issue that would actually fit in a stocking. Slim Rays latest addition to his mini-publishing empire is another well presented, user friendly gem. Slim has packaged this 10cm x 15.5cm (4x6) offering as ringbound and waterproof and therefore should fit any pocket unobtrusively. There are new diagrams as well as information from the full size manual and all of it clearly presented and easily understood. Section titles are boldly listed at the bottom of each page - a sound idea for rapid reference but in the wet possibly the staircase style indexing would have made it easier to go direct to the section starts. There are 44 sections covering everything from river features and cars in water to HAZMAT and knots. An excellent quick reference, truly pocket sized and therefore one of the few to be truly field-usable. -- Ade Scott, Editor, TECHNICAL RESCUE Magazine

Product Description
Swiftwater Rescue Field Guide is a waterproof, pocket-sized, "mission-tough" field reference for anyone who might be called on to do a flood or swiftwater rescue. This field guide distills the hard-won knowledge of Swiftwater Rescue into a practical on-the-spot reference for real people doing real rescues. This 4x6" guide is made to fit in a pocket, a glove compartment or a emergency response pack. It is the ultimate (and only) field reference to swiftwater rescue topics like basic rescuer safety considerations, river hydrology, equipment, shore-based, boat-based, and in-water rescue techniques; knots, rigging for river rescue, helicopters, incident command; and special situations like low-head dams and flood channel rescues.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 52 pages
• Publisher: Cfs Press; 1 edition (May 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964958511
• ISBN-13: 978-0964958517
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,485,189 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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