Thanks for the video with some useful tips. The American Canoe Association uses RETHROG - Reach, Throw, Row, Go. I like how you use Shout and will incorporate that it my sequence. As an open canoer, I avoid having anyone grab the center of my canoe. I move them toward bow or stern and paddle them to shore.
Hi Igboatin, thanks for the appreciation! It sounds like ACA and SCA / BC use very similar protocols, which is reassuring. If I were to go back to this in a way that was not constrained by existing protocols like SRTRG, or ACA's RETHROG, both of which I believe are based in 1970's public water safety messages, then I would go for a simple SRG - Shout / Reach / Go. The reason being SHOUTING a swimmer to the side gets their attention and in many situations is all you need. REACHING for a swimmer could be a stick, a length of tape OR a throwline. You're on the bank, they're in the water - the risk to rescuer is comparable. GO - any form of rescue where the rescuer is in a dynamic situation, be that swimming, tethered to a line, or even chase boating in a canoe or kayak - means that there is a lot going and the risk to the rescuer is at the top end of what is required by their decision making capacity. SRG. All it needs to be. I think we humans have a tendency to over complicate things that are easily distilled into something simple. All my best pal! Bruce *SCA = Scottish Canoe Association BC = British Canoeing 🙏
