Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to cross river.
- Scout the river to identify features, hazards and obstacles.
- Assess risk and select a safe and suitable crossing point.
- Evaluate conditions and select suitable method to cross river.
- Confirm organisational safety and emergency response procedures to ensure compliance during activities.
- Waterproof contents of back pack.
- Cross rivers using techniques appropriate to conditions.
- Set a ferry angle to negotiate currents and enter the river safely.
- Use appropriate body position and defensive swimming techniques to negotiate moving water and river hazards.
- Use appropriate body position and aggressive swimming techniques to negotiate moving water and to free self from river hazards.
- Maintain ferry angle to balance swimming against current.
- Wade across rivers at mid-thigh depth and negotiate swift currents, when present.
- Use aids to cross rivers, as appropriate to conditions.
- Utilise group techniques to cross rivers, as appropriate to conditions.
- Use techniques to safely negotiate upstream and downstream currents and to exit the river safely.
- Recognise unsafe crossing and retreat from river as required.
- Evaluate a contingency plan if river is unable to be crossed.