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Moving water, low-head dams, strainers, cold water, throw bags, Z-drags, tethered boats, vehicles in floods and victim care. Each topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 62 illustrated pages.
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 58 topics.
You're on the bank below the low-head dam in your district. The water looks calm, almost flat, and the instructor asks you where you'd set up the rescue.
The manual covers it in three dense paragraphs: recirculation, towback, boil line. You know the words, but you can't picture where the water actually goes.
In this book the low-head dam is a cross-section: the water pouring over, the arrows curling back toward the face, the boil line marked, and the zone downstream where you work from.
The same goes for strainers, foot entrapment, the 1-10-1 rule, the ferry angle and the Z-drag 3:1: each one has its own page.
You see where the danger is and you know where to stand without opening the manual again.
Reading moving water, hazards that kill, scene safety and the team, swimming and wading, shore-based rescue, rope systems, boats and floods, victim care and the exam review: 62 pages, all illustrated
Think of it this way:
A rescue boat is wrapped on a bridge pier and the captain tells you to set up a Z-drag to peel it off. You have to know where each Prusik goes and how much advantage you're really getting.
In the book you open the Z-drag page and see the 5 steps drawn in order: anchor, anchor pulley, progress-capture Prusik, traveling pulley on its own Prusik, haul, with the force marked at every pulley.
Same with the low-head dam, the strainer, the throw bag pendulum, the ferry angle and the drowning patient: each one on its own page.
Swiftwater Rescue Illustrated is 9 parts and 58 topics, all drawn, and at the end the NFPA 1006 JPR checklist, the numbers to know and a pre-entry checklist.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
Where the book fits (Awareness, Operations, Technician), current speed and force, river left and right, flow types, the Vs, eddies, pillows, the Class I–VI scale and measuring flow.
Low-head dams, natural hydraulics, strainers, undercuts and sieves, foot entrapment, cold water and the 1-10-1 rule, and flood-only hazards: for each one, where the danger is and where you stand.
Size-up and risk vs. benefit, upstream spotter and downstream safety, swiftwater PPE, the quick-release harness, hand and whistle signals and team roles.
Defensive and aggressive swimming, the ferry angle, getting in and out of eddies, solo and team wading crossings, and contact rescue as a last resort.
The rescue order from talk to helo, throw bag anatomy, throwing the bag, the pendulum belay, how the victim holds the rope and the tethered swimmer.
Floating vs. static line, five knots, the Prusik, anchors and anchor angles, the T-method, the Z-drag 3:1, friction, compound systems, vector pull, tensioned diagonal and entrapment: every system drawn, with the force marked at each pulley.
Boat-based rescue, 2-point and 4-point tethered boats, vehicles in moving water, flood search with FEMA marking and decon after flood work.
Getting the victim out of the water, drowning care with breathing first, and handling a hypothermic patient.
The NFPA 1006 swiftwater JPR checklist, the numbers to know, the pre-entry checklist and the most common mistakes on the bank.
At the end of the book: NFPA 1006 JPR checklist, the numbers to know on one page and a pre-entry checklist.
Test yourself on hydrology, rescue order, rope systems and patient care with exam-style questions, each answer explained with a drawing, so you know where you stand before the written test.
See the mistakes rescuers make most often (standing up in current, rope tied around the waist, no downstream safety) next to the right way, so you spot them on the bank and not in the water.
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Every class topic has its own drawn page, so you can review the hydraulic or the Z-drag between 24-hour shifts and actually keep it.
The JPR checklist, the numbers to know and the practice workbook show you where you stand before test day.
Print the pages you need (the Vs, the anchor angles, the tethered boat) and walk your crew through them on the bank.
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Yes. It skips the filler and goes straight to what you need for the Technician level: numbers, steps and drawings. It works for a refresher and for the written exam.
It's organized around the NFPA 1006 swiftwater JPRs (Operations and Technician), the standard that Pro Board and IFSAC accredited state programs certify to. It's cross-checked with NFPA 2500, USCG PFD approvals, NWS flood data and FEMA search marking. Every standard reference is marked on the page, so you can check it against the edition your state program uses.
No. It's independent study material: it doesn't give you a certificate, CE hours or any Pro Board or IFSAC credit. Your certification comes from your state program. NFPA, Pro Board and IFSAC are cited as references only.
No. Swiftwater rescue is learned in the water with a qualified instructor. The book helps you lock in the theory and prepare for the written exam. It doesn't replace EMS training or your local medical protocols either.
No. They're exam-style questions written for this book, each answer explained. They're not official questions from any exam.
In PDF by email, sent to the address you enter at checkout. The 2 bonus books come as PDFs too.
No. It's a one-time payment.
Yes. The PDF is printable: print the whole book or just the pages you want in your gear bag.
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The low-head dam, the strainer, the Z-drag: you see them drawn, and you've got it.
You walk into the exam knowing where everything is.
Drawings make studying faster.
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