Spring 2025 Lead & Learn

Small Craft Safety: Canoeing with Basic Water Rescue

Level: All

Course Description : This blended-learning course consists of online modules and an in-person skills session. In this course, participants will learn basic safety guidelines for canoeing, how to maneuver a canoe using flat water paddling strokes, and how to prevent, recognize, and respond to many canoeing emergencies. Hands-on skills, including managing a canoe and performing rescue techniques, will be practiced at one of our camp’s lakes. Please note that the skills session requires strenuous physical activity, including capsizing, emptying, and reboarding a canoe while wearing a life jacket. Practicing these skills may result in minor scratches or bruises. New this year : To make registering for Small Craft Safety: Canoeing and its prerequisite, Basic Water Rescue, simple and convenient, these two courses are now bundled into a single blended-learning course. Basic Water Rescue may still be completed as a stand-alone course if desired. Course Registration : This course may only be accessed via the Small Craft Safety: Canoeing or Small Craft Safety: Moving Water learning paths. Register for the in-person portion of this course by opening the course within the learning path in gsLearn, selecting Start This Course, and following the direct link to gsEvents for the desired date, or by searching in gsEvents. The accompanying online modules are available in gsLearn within the course itself.

Date

Time

Fee

Location

Sat. 6/14

8 am-noon

$15

Camp Tuckaho

Sun. 8/10

8 am-noon

$15

Camp Cedarledge

Small Craft Safety Core

Level: All

Course Description : This online course consists of two modules (35 minutes each) that provide detailed safety procedures for a variety of small craft and instructions on planning and supervising small craft outings.

This course must be completed before attending any in-person skills session(s) in a Small Craft Safety learning path.

Course Access : This course may only be accessed via the Small Craft Safety learning paths, available in the Content Library in gsLearn.

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