My Youtube Videos-Various Rescue Practices

Rescue Practice at URI Bay Campus - August 26, 2010 - Regular rescue practice for the sea kayakers to improve their skills. This practice in late afternoon was for assisted rescues using the leg over technique. The cowboy self rescue was also done as was rolling practice. Weather perfect with air about 80F and water about 75F. This video was taken with the Tachyon XC helmet camcorder.The background burbling noise is from the camera electronics and was corrected in later versions.

After Paddle Rolling Fun - September 18, 2010 - After a day paddle at Ft. Wetherill, members of ConnYak and Ricka relax trying out their rolling technique. Some very good, some need work. The background burbling noise is from the camera electronics and was corrected in later versions.

RICKA Openwater Rescue Practice, Dutch Harbor - May, 2012 - This was a day of practice. Paddling from Bay Campus to Dutch Harbor on Jamestown to do rescue practice in protected and open water. This video shows paddlers teaming up and practicing being the rescued and being the rescuer. Watching this video is informative if you try to see the mistakes (and successes) of the teams. After lunch we moved down below the picnic area on Ft Getty to have better open water practice and mild wave action. There is no sound with this video.

Rescue practice - Rescue practice at Camp Winaukee, AMC Labor Day Weekend, 2014. We do three assisted rescues. All views are with a Helmet cam (Polaroid branded 1080p camera).

The first (0-6:00) is a talk through for a simple rescue with me rescuing the first woman. The rescued uses the leg over entry into her cockpit. The paddles are easy to handle because they are Greenland wood paddles. Note that when pulling the rescued kayak over the deck, the kayak is leaned toward the rescuer. Both kayaks are very stable when the kayaks are in a T orientation.

The second rescue (8:00-13:00) is with a second woman rescuing the first woman. Note that the kayaks needed to be reoriented for the best position to get the rescued person into their kayak. This is called the nose to nose position.

In the third rescue (15:00- end) the second woman starts to pull the kayak up on her deck without the cockpit facing her. A common mistake starting. In a wet exit a paddle lease attached to the kayak can interfere with the paddler being rescued. The first woman is rescuing the second woman. Note the position of the left hand on the upper combing to brace the kayak. The rescued woman does a leg over entry back into the kayak.

Rescue practice - Rescue practice at Camp Winaukee, AMC Labor Day Weekend, 2014. This session is trying to self rescue using the cowboy, or in this case cowgirl technique.

(0-10:00) The first women being small, has trouble lifting the upside down kayak up to drain the water from the cockpit. She also has a little trouble stowing the paddle. (An alternative is using the paddle during the self rescue.) So this results in a kayak with water in it, making it very unstable. A good effort with her climbing in behind the cockpit. The end result is tipping over. Eventually in the kayak, she makes a mistake of extracting her stored paddle wrong and tips over again. Eventually on the kayak, the trick of using the Greenland paddle as an outrigger is suggested.

(10:30- end) The second woman tries to staddle the very rear of the kayak. She was successful in emptying the kayak of water but now it is too buoyant for here to push down the rear to start the cowboy. After the kayak tips over again she does a good bow flipping of the kayak to empty it at video 12:00. She finished a successful entry.

Rescue Practice - Working on rescue skills. Lincoln Woods Park, 2016. This is a standard assisted rescue viewed from the one being rescued. (via helmet cam) The sound is muffled because of water on the camera microphone. I use the leg over entry to the kayak, but you can see that I needed to grab the pink kayak deck lines to finish getting up. The rest of the entry is ordinary.

Rescue Practice - Working on instructing the rescuer how to rescue you. Lincoln Woods Park, 2016. In this video the person being rescued is instructing the rescuer (me) on how to get her in her kayak. This exercise is good to practice if the person who is rescuing you has no, or minimal, knowledge of an assisted rescue. This could be scary in a real world situation, but if one person knows what they are doing, the rescue has better chance of succeeding.

Rescue Practice - Showing a wet exit with camera above water. Always make sure (as seen in the video) that the skirt pull loop is free on top of the skirt. If the loop (this one with a white block of foam on it) is not available to rip off the skirt, the exercise (or real exit) could be deadly with a tight skirt. Note that when the kayak is upside down and the person exit the cockpit, the kayak gives a little jerk motion to the front. This is a good indication (in calm water) that the person has exited OK. At (0.57) the same exit is seen from an underwater camera. Since the camera is upside down, the video is upside down to the viewer.

Rescue Practice - Showing a wet exit with camera below water. This view has the camera view (flipped) so that the underwater portion is seen as if the viewer was watching underwater with a mask.

Rescue Practice - Raw video of rescue practice at Lincoln Woods Park. June 30, 2016. This video is raw footage from which the above clips were edited. The rescue session was an informal refresher for the woman in the video, so the video is quite informal, but recorded as a reminder of the session.

Rescue Practice - Raw video of rescue practice at Lincoln Woods Park. June 30, 2016. This video is raw footage from which the above clips were edited. The rescue session was an informal refresher for the woman in the video, so the video is quite informal, but recorded as a reminder of the session.

Rescue Practice - Raw video of rescue practice at Lincoln Woods Park. June 30, 2016. This video is raw footage on the same day from which the above clips were edited. The rescue session was at the Rhode Island Lincoln Woods State park at the eastern boat launch area of Olney Pond. This rescue session was an informal refresher for the woman in the video, so the video is quite informal, but recorded as a reminder of the session.

The camera used as a helmet cam is the old Polaroid branded Action Cam. This is a preferred camera for kayaking because of several unique features. The on/off switch is a slider, so you can feel if it is on or off, and it has different vibrations for video on/video off/off standby. No more is the camera on? problems. It also has "Dual File Recording" which is a duplicate Smartphone size recording that is small enough to send via email. The field of view on the original cameras was less than the 170 deg in the link, which provides less spherical distortion than the new ones. About 2 hrs recording is available on a battery charge. (non replaceable usb charged battery)
The camera mounted on the front of the pink kayak is an original Sony Acton Camera.