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The objective is to provide the participants with intermediate to advanced levels of skills in day and night navigation techniques. A basic level of navigation skills is assumed of all participants. The following areas must be covered during the practice:-
Relative advantages/disadvantages of GPS navigation systems Hints and tips for better, accurate navigation (use of altimeters, aiming off, using handrails) Improve the partipants awareness of timing when deploying to the field, planning and adjusting routes as required by operational circumstances. Set up and prepare an evening/night navigation course.
- Types and relative advantages/disadvantages
- Anchor points and footstraps (when, how etc).
- Loading a casualty, 4. Carrying over rough terrain
- Dynamic back-roping
- Steep ground lowering
- Rigging for vertical lowers and implement at least 1 lower
- Rigging for horizontal lowers and implement at least 1 lower
- Team work when operating under different conditions (night, carrying ice axes, crossing streams.)
The objective is to provide the participants with intermediate to advanced levels of search skills in day and night conditions. A basic level of search skills is assumed of all participants.
- Techniques for observation
- Analysis of terrain
- Briefing the field parties on critical separation and other search techniques
- Planning the search in the field (timespans)
- Working with SARDA as a Navigator
- Debriefing skills - reporting back to Search Managers
The objective is to provide the participants with intermediate to advanced levels of skills in high angle rescue techniques. A basic level of rope skills is assumed of all participants. The exercise bias should be towards the technical end of the spectrum. A significant number of the following areas should be covered during the practice:-
- Types and relative advantages/disadvantages of anchor systems for both stretcher and abseil systems
- Rigging and using a basic 3:1 lifting system
- Rigging and using a basic 5:1 lifting system
- Changing direction of the haul ropes
- Quick extraction of un-injured people from a ledge/hole
- Rigging jumars etc. for maximum efficiency and ascending different angle slopes
- High angle traversing issues
- An obstacle course combining many of the above techniques
- Resolving a casualty care problem and using a Tragsitz technique to evacuate the casualty.
- Rigging for a horizontal lower and implement at least 1 lower.
- Team work when operating under different conditions (night, carrying ice axes.)
