Safety Throw Ropes in Whitewater Rafting

Video Transcript

"Let’s talk a little bit about throw ropes. We have a variety of different size throw ropes, this is a small throw rope here, has about a forty foot rope, pretty thin rope here, clips open, you can see that the ropes inside here. We have a throw rope that’s attached to your waist so you know exactly where it is at all times. This again sort of a shortish rope, around forty feet, good for throwing ropes for short swims, people a short distance away and then this is more of a typical rafting throw rope. It’s about a seventy-five foot rope, essentially the same design. When this comes new to you, it’s neatly wrapped inside the bag, you need to take it out and throw it once to get all that neatness out of it and then when you repack this rope. You pack it in a random way just stuffing the rope inside the bag and that way it enables it to, enables you to throw the rope, and the rope in the bag just feeds themselves out nicely which is great. "