Table of Contents

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

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