Whitewater Survival: Escaping a Strainer
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always go over a strainer
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Most strainer accidents occur on a boat, mine did. I did not want to go under it. I see what they are thinking. The current wants to go under the strainer. however as these other have said you could be entangled, pinned by a strong current, or caught in an "undercut" and if you don't know what an under cut is you should not attempt a rescue. It's an underwater whirlpool that will spin you in circles like a death roll. The simulator here is NOTHING like a real strainer.
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For correct information on escaping a strainer, please refer to American Whitewater's or the American Canoe Association's safety resources. It is YOUR responsibility not to die underneath a strainer, AND not to teach or proliferate a method that has a significant probability of producing an adverse outcome (drowning underneath a strainer). A rescuer's first priority is not to compound the situation by becoming a victim his/herself.
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This curriculum is flawed...watered down with BS...cause it won't matter if you cover your face if you drown beneath the strainer. Perhaps this may work...PERHAPS...or, perhaps not because the strainer is impassable from below unless you're a tiny drop of water...or perhaps going under may subject a swimmer to foot entrapment or vest entaglement. The probability of this working out is far less than 1 (100%).
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!00 % CORRECT ScwoodCO
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Were you intentionally trying to get caught on the strainer? If so ignore this comment: We did that same drill in SRT-1 class and we were told this was one of the few river situations where you want to be swimming headfirst downstream. Idea is to catch the strainer with your outstretched arms and simultaneously mantle with your arms and dolphin kick with your feet to get your torso as high up on the strainer as you can. Then you climb over.
scwoodCO 3 years ago 4
Never go under a strainer, you never know whats under thre to get you caught underwater, not a good place to be. ALWAYS go over a strainer...
garyco99 3 years ago 2