​There's a storm coming. But what does that really mean? For me as an autistic adult it just means another today, but for most people it's an event or series of events out with their normal daily coping mechanisms and an exception to the run of the mill events of that day. It has been quite a trying year for me, persecution, abuse, sickening authoritarian pressure like I hope you have never seen or ever will. We wake up and go again regardless because we all hope that today m

Span Anchors are normally used where a Y-Hang or Multi anchor into a BFK would be too much of an angle if your only anchors were very close to your edge of danger. But your anchors MUST be very unquestionable sound as the forces on them because the angle is over 120 degrees more 160/170 even. Below is a typical Span Anchor set up using two ropes to create four lines across reducing the force on the ropes. ​You need 3 slings on each anchor ideally, you could use 2 but it then

When it comes to water rescues as CROs we have many techniques and various pieces of equipment at our disposal to carry out effective rescues of casualties who are in or around water. First and foremost, we always want to talk to the Casualty who’s in the water. Giving verbal encouragement or instructions to assist themselves, e.g. “swim to me”, “hold onto that”, “reach for the throw line.” Where possible the rescuer stays on safe ground and uses recognised equipment to reach

The Technical Rope Rescue world has lots of different Pulleys by lots of different manufactures, some single, double, fixed, swing cheek, swivel etc. A rule of thumb to follow would be if it’s a single pulley then you a single line of course, but I have seen a double pulley used with only a single line, which in the pictures below you can see introduces rope rub on the side plate which could fail the rope or fail the plate of the pulley. Some single pulleys now allow for side

​JESIP and EmergencyLocate have partnered to bring innovative enhancements to the JESIP app when viewing and navigating to an incident location. We are excited to support our commanders and responders with EmergencyLocate’s SAR Deploy solution which helps to pass location data from the JESIP app to a range of mapping and navigation apps without the need to further input any coordinates or address information. The intent behind this integration is to speed up deployment times

There are many ways to safely recover a casualty from height in a stretcher from tension line lowers to, straight lowers with or without a stretcher attendant. In this addition we are going to look at the Skate Block method. ​ This method with lower the casualty from height but away from the edge of the structure or cliff, there for not always needing an attendant to stop the stretcher moving or catching during the lower. A Skate Block is very easy to set on the ground and th

​So, lets dive into the world of “Single Point of Failure” Or “Backed up” A Single Point of Failure or SPOF is a point in a system (in our case, a rope system), that if it fails, the whole system fails. The idea of Single Points of Failure is the basic concept in understanding the application of backup in rope work. If we were to look at the pictures above of a hauling system on the left, (into a replicated stretcher bridle)  you can see the twin lines enter the pulley and ba

In this section we will look at a few diagrams of attachment methods for stretcher attendants, this will always be dependant on the task and casualty condition if it needs to be attended or not. Not will always be easier for edge transition if it must be hauled up or an edge but, in the methods, we will look at the attendant can remove themselves from the POC once safe. Double Alpine Butterfly or Bowline DAB with long or short tails to the length required, the stretcher bridl