Low Head Dam & Swiftwater Rescue - Creature Craft

[outOFthePITT]

what happens when it flips over?

[franny74656]

dam i wanted to c him get washed around

[firstamerican2]

I second what bigriverunner said. There are several clips here on YouTube showing low head dam rescueres trying to throw ropes and throw bags to victims who are too weak or unable to reach the rope.  They are typically sucked back into the poorover and recirculated. The idea is to keep a Creature Craft inflated, trailered and close to low head dams to extract a victims as quickly as possible.

[bigriverunner]

Response to crinoidcounter - Your suggestion is currently being used by most swift water rescuers / fire dept.s because it is unsafe to go beyond the boil line. Throwing a throw bag to a half drowned victim is NOT the best way as you said, because the many times they are too far out of it to even see the rope/ throw bag if it lands directly in front of them.  Creature Craft is the only safe way to actually retreive a victim.

[Unikorafting]

Witch personal water craft can be paddle against the current to the boil line, or powered with no risk of breaking a prop???

[crinoidcounter]

Best way to rescue from a low head dam is to launch a personal watercraft from downstream, run up to just below the boil and throw rope bags to the swimmer, then haul them downstream.

[clandestinopro]

would not want to be in there in any other kind of craft.... rescue creature craft looks really good!! great job!!

[firstamerican2]

This seems to be the safest thing I've seen for going beyond the boilline on a rescue. It also appears to have an open ended floor system which is important when pulling a partially drowned victim on board. It also looks very stable when they try to push it into the poorover. Without having had actual hands on in a rescue situation I am going to say this looks like the best thing out there.