Doing Team Bag Throws for a Kayak River Rescue

Video Transcript

"Another useful way of using throw bags out on the river is if you need to get a line over a long distance to set up some sort of system, or just move people from one side to the other. Now whenever you're dealing with rescue situations you always want to make sure that you're providing for a margin of error and try to succeed on the first time. If that means that you need to take a little bit more time to set up that system, that's Okay. What we have here is a double throw, otherwise known as a team throw. And this is a way of getting a lot of rope over a long distance. Now take one stuffed bag and clip it into the end of an unstuffed bag this carabiner is then going to be held and that second person is going to coil that second rope over their hand. Once this system is set up, I'm going to take this bag and throw it as far as I can to just get it out there. Once I've thrown it I'm not going to be holding on to anything. Simultaneously, the second person is gonna take the coils and throw them out there so there's a lot of slack in that moving water. They are going to hold onto the end of that rope to ensure that that's secured to the shore. What this system does is once that rope is out on the river, this bag still has a lot of rope in it, the coils are in the flow and so they're going to slowly get taken down stream. That gives the person on the far side a lot of time to get to this bag before it's pendulumed out of their way and they can't get to it. And this is how you throw them. So, on the count of three, one, two, three."