How to Swim into Eddies in White Water

Video Transcript

"When you are swimming aggressively in currents, a lot of the time in a rescue situation, you need to get an access midstream or side of the river eddies. This requires a certain amount of skill and also entering in the right place really counts a lot. Just like in a kayak, raft or canoe, you want to enter eddies as high as you possibly can. For example if we are swimming down this current and you are going to enter into the eddy out in the middle behind that boulder. You want to enter nice and high aggressively swimming in a cool type stroke to get into the eddy. Once you hit the eddy line, you can then start barreling down stream. What this does is it stops your buddy from getting swung parallel to the river current and getting stopped right on the eddy line and it helps you penetrate all the way into the eddy. "