Organizer:
Salome Hussein
Date/Time:
Date(s) - Friday 26 September, 2025 - Sunday 28 September, 2025
All Day
canoeing
kayaking
leader training
rafting
skills workshop
Hello all,
A rare PaddleNSW event is coming up within 3hr drive of Sydney. Fairly cheap for the level, too. Can do in a kayak or canoe. Sign up for this trip if you’d like to coordinate camping, driving, and gear. If you’ve done any paddling with me or the club, that can count towards your log, and this is very helpfully done within Paddle Australia’s own app. You can put myself or the relevant seconder down as the observer. It needn’t have been whitewater to count towards your hours.
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While whitewater paddling activities are generally safe, things can easily go wrong in the dynamic and often unpredictable whitewater environment. Whitewater safety is assured through pre-emptive management of risk and pro-active rescue responses.
The Paddle Australia (PA) River Rescue Level 2 Course presents participants with an amazing opportunity to upskill: developing confidence, and obtaining practical swift water rescue skills and knowledge. Assuring greater white-water paddling safety for all.
Do you have a love for whitewater paddling? Do you want to help build our paddle community and make your whitewaterpaddling safer? Would you like to be able to rescue yourself or a paddling friend in whitewater? Then this course is for you!
When: Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September 2025
Venue: Cotter River (In vicinity of Cotter Bend and Cotter Campground). The course venue will be confirmed in the week prior to this course, subject to appropriate water conditions for the safe completion of the course.
Course Overview: The course emphasises both maintenance of personal safety and building of confidence and abilities in effecting river rescues. Developed through sharing of practical skills, knowledge and techniques and hands-on individual and team/group scenario based learning.
Pre requisites: Course participants should have basic white-water knowledge and paddling skills and should expect to spend time in the river both developing confidence and building understanding of river rescue techniques. This course is a corequisite for the white-water guide and instructor courses.
Qualification Context: This qualification builds upon basic white-water skills and knowledge. It is suitable for recreational paddlers who want to develop their paddling rescue skills.
The qualification is the industry benchmark certification designed to meet the needs of white-water paddling Guides and Instructors for the outdoor industry across education, recreational and tourism sectors nationwide.
To gain the qualification participants must demonstrate their ability to manage and assist in rescue situations, from a paddle craft, and to conduct gear retrieval in Grade 2 white-water.
Payment Details. After registration you will receive an invoice for $450.00 which must be made to PNSW by September 20 2025. Your EFT Receipt must be forwarded to education@paddlensw.org.au to COMPLETE ENROLMENT within 7 days prior to the course. Completion of the assessment and award of the qualification (optional) is a further cost of $25.00.
Course Learning: Learning opportunities include:
(Course Content covered and sequence of instruction will be adjusted to best fit the participants’ needs, location, weather, water conditions and time allowance)
Assessment: Guidelines for assessment for the qualification are as detailed in the Paddle Australia guidelines as: Canoe & Kayak (Note a minimum logbook is required, which needs to be logged in your Paddlelog ).”
