Technical Rope Training and High Angle Rope Courses

Technical Rope Rescue

Technical Rope Rescue (TRR) is the “Gold Standard” for rope rescue training. Students advance from basic over-the-bank rescues to progressively more vertical scenarios. Course includes pre-planning and size-up of rope rescue operations; knots, hitches and anchor systems; belay operations; ascending and descending; raising and lowering systems; and patient packaging and litter attending, among other skills and techniques. There is wide range of application for the skill and knowledge covered in this course, including bridge, railway, pipeline and dam construction and inspections; moving heavy objects; and confined space rescue. The requirements for the Rope Rescue Technician portion of NFPA 1670 Standard for technical rope rescue are met in this course.

Duration: 5 days (1 day classroom, 4 days in the field)

Cost: $ 995.00  

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Course Content

  • NFPA Standards
  • Rescue instruction, philosophy & absolutes
  • Rescuer safety
  • Personal & team equipment
  • Equipment care & maintenance
  • Pre-incident planning
  • Size-up
  • General hazards
  • Incident command system
  • On-scene safety briefing & site control
  • Introduction to ropes, knots & technical gear
  • Knots, bends, hitches & load release hitches
  • Tied harnesses
  • Anchorage
  • Verbal commands
  • Placing rope protection
  • System safety checks
  • Belay systems & operations
  • Tensioning systems & mechanical advantage
  • Ascending & descending (low-angle)
  • Patient packaging and litter management
  • Rappelling (high angle)
  • Raising & lowering systems (low angle)
  • Attending a litter (low angle)
  • Pick-off while suspended from rope
  • Raising & lower systems (high angle)
  • Ascending & descending (high angle)
  • High line systems
  • Rope rescue special problems

Course Applications

  • Assisting ambulatory victims up low-angle terrain
  • Hauling a litter up low-angle terrain
  • Ascending or descending low-angle terrain with a simple rope belay
  • Extricating victims trapped on vertical faces
  • Vertical extrications from caves and mines
  • Moving heavy objects
  • Assisting victims and litters over shear edges
  • Moving horizontally on ropes, as in canyon crossings
  • Mid-point drops to victims in canyons
  • Body searches and recoveries in vertical walled gorges
  • Rope systems in concrete-sided flood control channels
  • High rise evacuations
  • Trapped building residents
  • Management of properly equipped SCUBA divers in extremely technical whitewater searches
  • Unwrapping boats pinned on debris and rocks in fast rivers
  • Lowering, raising and rappelling from helicopters not equipped with winches
  • Extricating people and vehicles mired in mud and sand
  • Bridge and dam construction and inspections
  • Railway construction