River skills - Sienna Edwards

This week we learnt about swift water rescue. We practiced skills like swimming in rapids, swimming over logs, getting out our boats in hard places, tethered swim rescue, and walking in current . Although I thought some of these skills would be simple some were quite challenging. Throughout the activities I had many successes but also some fails which helped me learn and improves my ability to rescue myself and others. We also learnt who is the most important in a rescue and that a rescue should safe, simple, and quick. Learning these skills is very important to so you can act effectively and efficiently if you need to rescue yourself or others whilst kayaking on a river in the future.