✅ Rescue 3 philosophy
✅ Training standards
✅ Best practice guidelines for water rescue
✅ Hydrology and water hazards
✅ Floodwater dynamics and hazards
✅ Flood theory
✅ Personal equipment
✅ Technical and team equipment
✅ Pre-planning
✅ Risk assessments
✅ Incident size-up
✅ Incident management and site control
✅ Medical and decontamination considerations
✅ Considerations for night/poor visibility operations
✅ Mud, ice and unstable surface considerations
✅ Introduction to searching rivers and floods
✅ Helicopter familiarisation
✅ Communications
✅ Weir (low head dam) rescue considerations
✅ Introduction to rescues from vehicles in water
✅ Animal rescue considerations
✅ Swiftwater swimming techniques
✅ Strainer swim
✅ Conditional rescues – talk, reach, throw
✅ Shallow water techniques
✅ Tethered boat techniques
✅ Tensioned diagonals
✅ Line crossing methods
✅ Belay systems
✅ True rescues – tethered
✅ People and equipment entrapments
✅ Casualty management
✅ Knots and anchor systems
✅ Tensioning systems and mechanical advantages
✅ Inflated fire hose (if used by agency)
✅ Introduction to paddle boat handling (if used by agency)
✅ Boat unwrapping (if used by agency)
✅ Flips and rights (if used by agency)