The whole team do water awareness, which teaches them how to operate safely around water, but only a small number go on to do the Swift Water training. In our team it's about 12 people out of the 50 team members. You have to be comfortable in fast moving water and it's a big time commitment on top of all the other MR training, so not too many people want to do it.
Unfortunately we don't. The closest thing would be something like this White Water safety course run by Plas Y Brenin: www.pyb.co.uk/course/white-water-safety-and-rescue/
@@alanhowarth1 That is unfortunate, but thanks for the reply and the link :). I wish there were courses like these for civilians too, so one could help others in need in case sth similar happened.
It's good to see you back
Thanks - I've been out with an injury recently. Hopefully I'll have some more videos posted soon.
Does the whole MRT do this, or do you have a specialist group within the team?
The whole team do water awareness, which teaches them how to operate safely around water, but only a small number go on to do the Swift Water training. In our team it's about 12 people out of the 50 team members. You have to be comfortable in fast moving water and it's a big time commitment on top of all the other MR training, so not too many people want to do it.
Do you have something similar but for civilians?
Unfortunately we don't. The closest thing would be something like this White Water safety course run by Plas Y Brenin: www.pyb.co.uk/course/white-water-safety-and-rescue/
@@alanhowarth1 That is unfortunate, but thanks for the reply and the link :). I wish there were courses like these for civilians too, so one could help others in need in case sth similar happened.