4 Star Training, White Water Safety & Rescue (Inland and Canoe)

There are two distinct aims to British Canoe Union approved White Water Safety and Rescue Course.

The primary aim of the course is to encourage safe white water paddling. By illustrating simple and effective techniques of leadership and river running skill that can be applied to most white water situations. The principle objectives being to avoid difficulty through good paddling and river skills.

The secondary aim of a course is to encourage the use of applicable and relevant strategies to perform a rescue but only in the event a rescue can not be avoided. This is achieved by working the course with in the principle of the ‘core principles’.

Who Is This Course For?

All river paddlers who wish to develop/enhance their white water river safety and rescue skills. This award is also aimed at those looking at progressing through the White water coaching scheme, is applicable to a Level 3 coach  and is a prerequisite to attending 4 Star Assessment Inland/Canoe. Please check out the BCU website for full details.

Course Aims

To provide individuals with the skills to make sound, safe decisions and provide suitable rescue when river paddling.

 
Skills Covered

Please check out the BCU website for full details of all strokes covered.



Outline Programme

It is important to note that the above outline programme is a guide.  Times may vary due to weather conditions.

Our Staff

The Coaches(s) who will work with you are all highly experienced and qualified. Tollymore prides itself in the knowledge and experience that its full time and part time staff bring to its courses. Our staff are all keen canoeists who know all the local ‘hot spots’ enabling them to choose the most suitable site to run your course. You may well have met them on the water in the past, if not you’re sure to bump into them in the future on days when they are not working!

All are obliged to attend annual staff updates and training courses

What do I need to bring?

 
Tollymore Information

Tollymore Mountain Centre, on the edge of the Mournes, is Northern Ireland’s National Centre for Mountaineering and Canoeing Activities.  It is funded and managed by the Sports Council for Northern Ireland as a National Centre. The Centre is an attractive, purpose-built facility of log construction with accommodation for 30 people in 2, 4 and 6 berth bedrooms.  Quilts, pillows and bed linen are all provided.  The Centre is well appointed with toilets, showers, modern kitchen, lecture room, workshop and drying room.  Outside there is ample parking space, a ropes course and a floodlit granite-climbing wall.  A modern indoor climbing wall is open year round.  The centre is ideally situated on the edge of the Mournes, with quick and easy access to the hills.

The Central Council for Physical Recreation opened Tollymore Mountain Centre in 1969.  In 1974, it passed to the newly established Sports Council for Northern Ireland Trust.  In 1995, Tollymore achieved the management standard BS EN ISO 9001:2000 for the quality systems it operates.   However, as part of Sports Council for Northern Ireland’s ongoing commitment to the development of the National Centre, Tollymore will be undergoing a major redevelopment, commencing in 2007.  The facilities will be improved and expanded, to ensure that Tollymore remains as an example of best practice in the provision of mountaineering, hillwalking, climbing and canoeing courses in Northern Ireland.

Accommodation
Accommodation is included in course fee.

Catering
This is a fully catered course


What next?

This course provides you with an introduction to the White Water Safety and Rescue skills required to run rivers safely.   The logical next step are courses such as those that appear in ‘Canoesport in Rough Conditions’ or try a course in an alternative discipline – sea, surf or Inland Kayak .

 You may choose to join a canoe club, or/and  join the governing body - The Canoe Association Of Northern Ireland (CANI). A full list of clubs is available from CANI

Useful Books

Recommended by Tollymore
BCU Handbook published by Pesda Press

Useful contacts:

CANI
Canoe Association of Northern Ireland
Unit 2 Rivers Edge
13 – 15 Ravenhill Rd
Belfast
BT68DN

Email: office@cani.org.uk

Web: www.cani.org.uk

Tel: 0870 2405065

BCU

www.bcu.org.uk