Whitewater Rescue Manual: New Techniques for Canoeists, Kayakers, and Rafters

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Keeping Out of Trouble

Chapter 2. Equipment Safety Check

Chapter 3. Swimming and Wading

Chapter 4. Throw Ropes: Selection and Use

Chapter 5. Swimming and Line-Based Rescues

Chapter 6. Recovering Pinned Boats

Chapter 7. Retrieving Runaway Boats

Chapter 8. In-Boat Entrapments, Body Pins, and Unconscious-Swimmer Rescues

Chapter 9. First Aid

Chapter 10. Evacuation and Transport

Chapter 11. Advanced River Rescue Skills

Appendix A. Knots

Appendix B. Safety Code of the American Whitewater Affiliation

Appendix C. Resources

Index