Whitewater
River signals: communicating when nobody can hear you
Whitewater is loud enough that shouting is useless at twenty metres. A small set of hand and whistle signals replaces it, and a group that has agreed them moves far better.
Topic
river safety
Every Extreme Sports Adventures article tagged river safety — 4 pieces across 1 section.
Whitewater
Foot entrapment: why you never stand up in moving water
It happens in water people would describe as shallow. It happens to strong swimmers. And it happens because the most natural instinct in the world is the wrong one.
Whitewater
The throw bag: a rope is only as good as the person holding it
Everyone carries one. A surprising number of people have never thrown one at a moving target, and it shows at exactly the moment it matters.
Whitewater
You are out of the boat: the first ten seconds of a whitewater swim
Everyone swims eventually. What separates a bad afternoon from a fatality is almost entirely what the swimmer does in the first few seconds, before anyone else can help.