- Location
- Basel, Switzerland
A couple of weeks back we spent a day training aerial rescue with the crew... it's one of these things it's so easy to schedule and the to put off because because a big job has just come it, let's do it next month and hey what d'you know it's autumn already and yet another year has passed... time does fly when you're having fun...
Know the feeling?
So, this time we actually managed to make it happen on the planned date.
We covered a lot of ground in one day and the feedback from all involved was really positive. We kicked off in the morning with half a morning's worth of theory, then demos until lunch time. In the afternoon everybody worked their way through the various scenarios.
Situations covered were:
Basic and pick-off rescue
Ladder rescue (Person working off top off ladder secured with a lanyard incapacitated. Sound easy? Give it a go... not entirely straight forward)
Access line rescue
Pole rescue
Immobilisation of climber in the tree with a neckbrace and spine board
This was basically a compressed version of a two day AR workshop I'd usually run as a training course... the result was a pretty full-on day.
Well worth it though, I'd really like to encourage all of you out there who don't usually or train AR in your team or haven't done so for a long time to maybe give it a little nudge to make it happen.. it's the kind of thing everybody stands to profit a lot from!
Know the feeling?
So, this time we actually managed to make it happen on the planned date.
We covered a lot of ground in one day and the feedback from all involved was really positive. We kicked off in the morning with half a morning's worth of theory, then demos until lunch time. In the afternoon everybody worked their way through the various scenarios.
Situations covered were:
Basic and pick-off rescue
Ladder rescue (Person working off top off ladder secured with a lanyard incapacitated. Sound easy? Give it a go... not entirely straight forward)
Access line rescue
Pole rescue
Immobilisation of climber in the tree with a neckbrace and spine board
This was basically a compressed version of a two day AR workshop I'd usually run as a training course... the result was a pretty full-on day.
Well worth it though, I'd really like to encourage all of you out there who don't usually or train AR in your team or haven't done so for a long time to maybe give it a little nudge to make it happen.. it's the kind of thing everybody stands to profit a lot from!
